Ketchup manufacturing · California

Del Monte Foods

Hanford, CA · ~446 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Del Monte Foods runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ketchup manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Del Monte Foods: 2.9 TCR = 89% of Ketchup manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Del Monte Foods safety composite

Del Monte Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.8

2017→2024

Del Monte Foods injury rate improved

Del Monte Foods's TCR fell 3.8 from 6.3 in 2017 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.3 · 2018=2.6 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1.0 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Hanford, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #13/52
  • PHOTO Welch's Food Inc. Gr…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~446 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Welch's Food Inc. Grandview (0.0 TCR gap)

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Del Monte Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Del Monte Foods averages 2.9 TCR (89% of the Ketchup manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Del Monte Foods TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=2.6 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Del Monte Foods falls in its industry

330 Ketchup manufacturing establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 52 Ketchup manufacturing employers in California.

Del Monte Foods (446 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Del Monte Foods
Del Monte Foods (446 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Del Monte Foods has more employees than the Ketchup manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 2.4 1.9 14 0 0
2021 1.0 1.0 6 0 0
2020 2.3 1.4 13 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 12 0 0
2017 6.3 3.6 16 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · CA · Hanford

330 Ketchup manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 118 employers in Hanford, 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 Welch's Food Inc. Grandview 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2453-00060248-60248C 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LFI HQ 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6663_15446 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HarvestCo, Inc. 446 FTE
STATE-SIZE A.J. Kirkwood & Associates Inc. 446 FTE
STATE-SIZE MKS Irvine 446 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.R. Laurence Co., Inc - SC68 55th 446 FTE
CITY-NEAR Daniel C. Salas Harvesting Inc. 2,932 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanford Community Hospital 1,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9292-AHHF001 - HOSPITAL 1,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR A.M. AG ENTERPRISE, INC. 976 FTE
NAT-TCR Marc Glassman Inc 07FL 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1500 W Loop 340 Waco Tx 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Seaboard Foods Lp Leoti Fm Delivery 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fukoku America Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 55506 Phoenix 446 FTE
NAT-SIZE HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland 446 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clark County Government 446 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arthrex Logistics Center 446 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, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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