Farm labor contractors · California

Empire Ag Inc

Bakersfield, CA · ~566 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Ag Inc runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

Empire Ag Inc: 2.8 TCR = 62% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Ag Inc safety composite

Empire Ag Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 70% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−2.4

2017→2021

Empire Ag Inc injury rate improved

Empire Ag Inc's TCR fell 2.4 from 4.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2021=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #196/620
  • PHOTO Lynn Mayer's Great L…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~566 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lynn Mayer's Great Lakes Glads, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Ag Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Ag Inc averages 2.8 TCR (62% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Ag Inc TCR series: 2017=4 · 2021=1.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Empire Ag Inc falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 70% 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 #196 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Empire Ag Inc (566 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Empire Ag Inc
Empire Ag Inc (566 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Empire Ag Inc 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
2021 1.6 1.6 3 0 0
2017 4.0 2.3 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 Lynn Mayer's Great Lakes Glads, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Grown Organic Distributors, Inc 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jose Mireles, FLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Farms and Orchards Inc 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE DC23 566 FTE
STATE-SIZE OAK - Flight Ops 566 FTE
STATE-SIZE CABLL - BELL HUB 566 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oro Grande School District 566 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 Vermilion Healthcare Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Nissan of Leesburg 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dixon Reporting Center 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Peoria Corn Plant 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bertch Cabinet Mfg. 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dal-Tile Corporation 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Tennessee Regional Health System-Winchester/Sewanee 566 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-ILARL012 566 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: 2021, 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.