Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers · California

Eat Sweet Farms

Santa Maria, CA · ~1,555 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eat Sweet Farms runs at 295% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Eat Sweet Farms: 6.5 TCR = 295% of Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eat Sweet Farms safety composite

Eat Sweet Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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)
D 6.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−2.8

2017→2024

Eat Sweet Farms injury rate improved

Eat Sweet Farms's TCR fell 2.8 from 8.9 in 2017 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.9 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=5.2 · 2024=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 295% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #50/71
  • PHOTO FreshPoint Raleigh167
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 425 inj
  • SIZE ~1,555 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FreshPoint Raleigh167 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eat Sweet Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eat Sweet Farms averages 6.5 TCR (295% of the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Eat Sweet Farms TCR series: 2017=8.9 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=4 · 2021=5.2 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Eat Sweet Farms falls in its industry

369 Berries, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 71 Berries, fresh, merchant whole employers in California.

Eat Sweet Farms (1,555 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Eat Sweet Farms
Eat Sweet Farms (1,555 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Eat Sweet Farms has more employees than the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 6.1 0.8 88 0 0
2021 5.2 5.2 67 11 0
2020 4.0 3.8 54 6 0
2019 6.1 5.8 71 7 0
2018 8.7 5.5 86 39 0
2017 8.9 4.5 59 57 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · CA · Santa Maria

369 Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 FreshPoint Raleigh167 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indianapolis Fruit Company, LLC dba Vine Line Produce 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Organically Grown Company 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piazza Produce 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2032-08181501 1,555 FTE
STATE-SIZE 056679-SACRAMENTO CA P&DC 1,556 FTE
STATE-SIZE 08680951 WEST LOS ANGELES MEDICAL CENTER 1,556 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIE - San Mateo 1,552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR University of Indianapolis 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1307 Swn43 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SILVERDALE 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dunes Family Health Care 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Brunswick 1,555 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paphi - Philadelphia 1,555 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkhart General Hospital 1,555 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ingram Micro, Inc. - Williamsville 1,555 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, 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.