Farm labor contractors · California

Dago'S Contracting

Shafter, CA · ~144 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dago'S Contracting runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Dago'S Contracting: 1.8 TCR = 39% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dago'S Contracting safety composite

Dago'S Contracting scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Dago'S Contracting: 1.4 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2024

Dago'S Contracting's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.4 in 2023 to 2.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Shafter, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 39% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #117/620
  • PHOTO Elite Agriculture La…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~144 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elite Agriculture Labor Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dago'S Contracting in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Dago'S Contracting averages 1.8 TCR (39% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Dago'S Contracting TCR series: 2023=1.4 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Dago'S Contracting falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #117 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Dago'S Contracting (144 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Dago'S Contracting
Dago'S Contracting (144 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Dago'S Contracting has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 2.2 2.2 3 1 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Shafter

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 66 employers in Shafter, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Elite Agriculture Labor Inc 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Contracting 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden State Ag Services, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR HILLSIDE FARM LABOR CONTRACTING, INC 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matsui Nursery, Inc 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilltop Ranch Inc. - Turlock Rd. 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 1230 3RD 144 FTE
STATE-SIZE Snyder Langston, LLC 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL2 1,819 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0593 - Shafter CA DC 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Valley Distribution Center CVDC 1,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0593 - Bakersfield DC 1,179 FTE
NAT-TCR Advance Electric Co Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bailey County Electric Cooperative 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Slingshot 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CHUCKATUCK 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hamel Builders Inc. 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Coating & Laminating 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAT of Fort Wayne Inc. 144 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michael's Finer Meats and Seafood, LLC 144 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.