Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production · California

Farming

King City, CA · ~329 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Farming runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade F.

Farming: 9.0 TCR = 201% of Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Farming safety composite

Farming scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−8.3

2017→2022

Farming injury rate improved

Farming's TCR fell 8.3 from 14.1 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.1 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=14.1 · 2018=10.0 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · King City, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 201% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #150/175
  • PHOTO ATI Ag Services, LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 110 inj
  • SIZE ~329 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATI Ag Services, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Farming in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Farming averages 9.0 TCR (201% of the Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Farming TCR series: 2017=14.1 · 2018=10 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Farming falls in its industry

331 Romaine lettuce farming, field establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #150 safest of 175 Romaine lettuce farming, field employers in California.

Farming (329 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Farming
Farming (329 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Farming has more employees than the Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2022 5.8 3.9 13 2 0
2021 6.2 4.0 14 0 0
2018 10.0 8.3 33 2 0
2017 14.1 9.9 50 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · King City

331 Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in King City, 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 ATI Ag Services, LLC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nielsen Farms 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.H. SMITH FARMS INC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scarborough Farms 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SPAN Construction and Engineering 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peterson Brothers Construction, Inc 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lagunitas Brewing Co. 329 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlsbad - 2747 Loker 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGP FARM LABOR LLC 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rio Farms 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvest 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farming2 227 FTE
NAT-TCR Summit Watch 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #927 (MARKET STREET) 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-004-Litchfield ( RK-004 ) 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-CAE-COLUMBIA-CAE-PDMT 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Loews Philadelphia Hotel 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE SEI Group LLC 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE MO.FENTO.6 - Ricoh Usa, Inc 329 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salem - Main Building 329 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: 2022, 2021, 2018, 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.