Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · California

Dick Peixoto Company

Watsonville, CA · ~128 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dick Peixoto Company runs at 299% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade F.

Dick Peixoto Company: 13.4 TCR = 299% of Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dick Peixoto Company safety composite

Dick Peixoto Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Dick Peixoto Company: 15.5 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2024

Dick Peixoto Company's TCR rose 0.9 from 15.5 in 2018 to 16.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 299% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #169/175
  • PHOTO Primetime Harvesting…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Primetime Harvesting Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dick Peixoto Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dick Peixoto Company averages 13.4 TCR (299% of the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Dick Peixoto Company TCR series: 2018=15.5 · 2020=9.7 · 2021=12.2 · 2022=12.4 · 2023=14.4 · 2024=16.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Dick Peixoto Company falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and potato farming, establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #169 safest of 175 Vegetable and potato farming, employers in California.

Dick Peixoto Company (128 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Dick Peixoto Company
Dick Peixoto Company (128 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Dick Peixoto Company has more employees than the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 16.4 8.7 17 0 0
2023 14.4 12.4 13 1 0
2022 12.4 9.6 13 0 0
2021 12.2 12.2 13 0 0
2020 9.7 6.2 9 2 0
2018 15.5 10.0 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Watsonville

331 Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 Primetime Harvesting Inc 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pappas Family Farms, Inc. 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR J&J Labor,Inc. 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Baby Produce, Inc. 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE BATTH FARMS 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main operations location 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Services, LLC. 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Chino Substation 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR 627 Manhattan Fire Protection District 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Companies, Inc 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Centerville Operation LLC 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR K&M Tire Grinnell 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Warren Community Hospital Inc. 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Distribution Centers LLC-5020 DYLAN DRIVE 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHC Healthcare-Tullahoma 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2306 Martins Supermarket 128 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, 2021, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.