Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing · California

Eckert Cold Storage

Name: Eckert Cold Storage Workplace Safety Data
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Escalon, CA · ~341 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Eckert Cold Storage runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Eckert Cold Storage: 4.4 TCR = 133% of Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eckert Cold Storage safety composite

Eckert Cold Storage scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Eckert Cold Storage: 1.6 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.41× in 2019

Eckert Cold Storage's TCR rose 5.5 from 1.6 in 2018 to 7.1 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Escalon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 133% of ind

DART 1.8 DART
RANK #13/29
PHOTO Zentis North America…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~341 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Zentis North America LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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4.4
Zentis North A

4.4
B&G Foods

4.4
Lakeside Foods

4.4
Howey Plant

4.4

What this shows Eckert Cold Storage averages 4.4 TCR (133% of the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Eckert Cold Storage TCR series: 2018=1.6 · 2019=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Eckert Cold Storage falls in its industry

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade D

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 29 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, a employers in California.

Eckert Cold Storage (341 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Eckert Cold Storage has more employees than the Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetab median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2019	7.1	1.8	6	2	0
2018	1.6	1.6	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · CA · Escalon

224 Frozen fruits, fruit juices, and vegetables, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 23 employers in Escalon, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Zentis North America LLC	PLYMOUTH, IN	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	B&G Foods	YUMA, AZ	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lakeside Foods, Inc	BROOTEN, MN	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Howey Plant	HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, FL	4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Elite Agriculture Labor Inc	BAKERSFIELD	341 FTE
STATE-SIZE	California Department of Transportation Facility 580	INDEPENDENCE	341 FTE
STATE-SIZE	California Department of Transportation Facility 701	CRESTVIEW	341 FTE
STATE-SIZE	California Department of Transportation Facility 704	INYOKERN	341 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Escalon Premier Brands	Escalon	373 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Escalon Premier Brand	Escalon	345 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hogan Mfg. Inc.	Escalon	200 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Strand Ace Hardware, Inc.	Escalon	127 FTE
NAT-TCR	Simplex	Bensenville, IL	4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gamco	Durant, OK	4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Presence McAuley Manor	Aurora, IL	4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sims Bark Woodbury	Woodbury, GA	4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Houston (HR)	Houston, TX	341 FTE
NAT-SIZE	AUSTTX02	Austin, TX	341 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Avera Plaza 2	Sioux Falls, SD	341 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fort Wayne (Bluffton Road)	Fort Wayne, IN	341 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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