Farm management services · California

Desert Mist Farms

Coachella, CA · ~24 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Desert Mist Farms runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm management services workplace, earning a grade A.

Desert Mist Farms: 2.0 TCR = 46% of Farm management services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Desert Mist Farms safety composite

Desert Mist Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Desert Mist Farms held a steady TCR band

Desert Mist Farms's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.4 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115116 · Coachella, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 46% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/46
  • PHOTO Ocean Mist Farms - C…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ocean Mist Farms - Coachella (0.0 TCR gap)

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Desert Mist Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Desert Mist Farms averages 2.0 TCR (46% of the Farm management services BLS benchmark).

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

Desert Mist Farms TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.4 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Desert Mist Farms falls in its industry

75 Farm management services establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 46 Farm management services employers in California.

Desert Mist Farms (24 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Desert Mist Farms
Desert Mist Farms (24 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Desert Mist Farms has fewer employees than the Farm management services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 6.9 3.4 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115116 · CA · Coachella

75 Farm management services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 36 employers in Coachella, 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 Ocean Mist Farms - Coachella 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ocean Mist Shop 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Appellation MGMT GRP 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Titan Orchard Management 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR TGH Inc 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coachella Valley Water District 540 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spotlight 29 Casino 479 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coachella 352 FTE
NAT-TCR George Koch Sons - Caledonia 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mertek Solutions, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR WheelWorx PEKIN 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR C-20-0010 Lock & Dam 53 Demolition 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Daniel Co. of Springfield 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Space Craft MFG 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Parts Kansas City - MO 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mill Street 24 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.