Fruit and tree nut combination farming · California

Deseret Farms of California

Chico, CA · ~143 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Deseret Farms of California runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fruit and tree nut combination farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Deseret Farms of California: 3.9 TCR = 86% of Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Deseret Farms of California safety composite

Deseret Farms of California scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2022→2024

Deseret Farms of California injury rate improved

Deseret Farms of California's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.7 in 2022 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.7 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111336 · Chico, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #15/48
  • PHOTO GF Managment Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GF Managment Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Deseret Farms of California in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Deseret Farms of California averages 3.9 TCR (86% of the Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS benchmark).

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

Deseret Farms of California TCR series: 2022=4.7 · 2023=3 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Deseret Farms of California falls in its industry

65 Fruit and tree nut combination establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 48 Fruit and tree nut combination employers in California.

Deseret Farms of California (143 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Deseret Farms of California
Deseret Farms of California (143 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Deseret Farms of California has more employees than the Fruit and tree nut combination farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 3.9 3.9 5 0 0
2023 3.0 1.5 3 1 0
2022 4.7 3.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111336 · CA · Chico

65 Fruit and tree nut combination farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, 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 GF Managment Company 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR RJL LABOR SERVICES INC. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Leaf Farms, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Del Mar Farms 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE John Kautz Farms 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc. 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Woodland WDL1 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dagos Contracting 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Essendant: Dallas OE 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blind Industries and Services of Maryland - Headquarters 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Verst Langley 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ferguson 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tron Mechanical, Inc. 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Artisanal Brewing Ventures - Brewery 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE K.G.D.O. Holding Company, LLC (Terra West) 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sycamore Springs 143 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.