Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC

Watsonville, CA · ~550 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade D.

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC: 8.7 TCR = 193% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC safety composite

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

−5.3

2017→2019

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC injury rate improved

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC's TCR fell 5.3 from 12.0 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.0 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 193% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #526/620
  • PHOTO Sangiacomo Family Vi…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 87 inj
  • SIZE ~550 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sangiacomo Family Vineyards (0.0 TCR gap)

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Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC averages 8.7 TCR (193% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC TCR series: 2017=12 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #526 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC (550 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC
Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC (550 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC has more employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a higher 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 6.7 5.1 23 7 0
2018 7.3 5.7 26 5 0
2017 12.0 6.0 38 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Watsonville

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews 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 Sangiacomo Family Vineyards 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mar-Jon Labor LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gizdich Ranch 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goyenetche Dairy LLC 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Air Systems Corporation (ASI) 550 FTE
STATE-SIZE Best Deal Food Company 550 FTE
STATE-SIZE Educational Employees Credit Union 550 FTE
STATE-SIZE The People Concern - Tiki 550 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Vista Farms, LP. 467 FTE
NAT-TCR Oakland Grove Associates LP 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Meals on Wheels Older Adult Alternatives of Fairfield County, Inc 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Oaks of Kissimmee Health and Rehabiltation Center 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hin 06 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prov-Melrose Street (Ri01) 550 FTE
NAT-SIZE CAP Colorado Springs, CO 550 FTE
NAT-SIZE DC93 550 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bemis North America - New London 550 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.