Farm labor contractors · California

Elite Ag Services

Bakersfield, CA · ~381 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elite Ag Services runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Elite Ag Services: 1.3 TCR = 29% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elite Ag Services safety composite

Elite Ag Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−1.7

2018→2019

Elite Ag Services injury rate improved

Elite Ag Services's TCR fell 1.7 from 2.1 in 2018 to 0.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=2.1 · 2019=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #82/620
  • PHOTO R MEDINA FLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~381 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R MEDINA FLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elite Ag Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elite Ag Services averages 1.3 TCR (29% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Elite Ag Services TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=0.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Elite Ag Services falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Elite Ag Services (381 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Elite Ag Services
Elite Ag Services (381 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Elite Ag Services has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 0.5 0.2 2 0 0
2018 2.1 0.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Bakersfield

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 818 employers in Bakersfield, 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 R MEDINA FLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monrovia Nursery 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm labor contractor 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coastal Region 381 FTE
STATE-SIZE ETS Express, LLC - CA 381 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2471 - Menifee 381 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5230 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Bakersfield 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-04 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1 4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esparza Enterprises, Inc 3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR McGill Manufacturing 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlas Copco Assembly Systems 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR L3 Technologies Brashear 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-OKTUL07 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tower Automotive Operations USA I, LLC - Bellevue 381 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vala's Pumpkin Farm 381 FTE
NAT-SIZE Libbey Corporate Office 381 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilltop Health Services Corporation- 625 27 1/2 Road 381 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.