Sod farming · California

Escondido Farm

Escondido, CA · ~15 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Escondido Farm runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Escondido Farm: 7.3 TCR = 161% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Escondido Farm safety composite

Escondido Farm scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−4.8

2017→2024

Escondido Farm injury rate improved

Escondido Farm's TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.8 · 2019=5.7 · 2022=20.9 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Escondido, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #92/120
  • PHOTO Baucom's Nursery Com…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baucom's Nursery Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Escondido Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Escondido Farm averages 7.3 TCR (161% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Escondido Farm TCR series: 2017=4.8 · 2019=5.7 · 2022=20.9 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Escondido Farm falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 120 Sod farming employers in California.

Escondido Farm (15 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Escondido Farm
Escondido Farm (15 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Escondido Farm has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2022 20.9 20.9 3 0 0
2019 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2017 4.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Escondido

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Escondido, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Baucom's Nursery Company 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Little Valley Wholesale Nursery 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Valley Greenhouse 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornflower Farms, INC 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE JK FARMS 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE workers 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pajaro Valley 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE MMF-Hemet 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Escondido 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Escondido 3,031 FTE
CITY-NEAR Escondido CA 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR Extruded Aluminum Company, LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Charles High School 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mills Ford Chrysler 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterloo Plant 7.3 TCR

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, 2023, 2022, 2019, 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.