Strawberry farming · California

Festival Farms

Ventura, CA · ~44 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Festival Farms runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Festival Farms: 2.5 TCR = 56% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Festival Farms safety composite

Festival Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−2.4

2017→2023

Festival Farms injury rate improved

Festival Farms's TCR fell 2.4 from 2.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Ventura, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/124
  • PHOTO L&G FARMING, INC.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: L&G FARMING, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Festival Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Festival Farms averages 2.5 TCR (56% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Festival Farms TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Festival Farms falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Festival Farms (44 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Festival Farms
Festival Farms (44 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Festival Farms has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2020 5.9 2.9 1 1 0
2019 6.3 6.3 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Ventura

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Ventura, 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 L&G FARMING, INC. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wish Farms 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FMG FARM CONTRACTOR INC 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Farms LLC 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Boudin SF - Metro Pointe 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cabrillo Beach 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oakwood Village 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Mesa, Elmcroft of 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 447 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 530 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6292-00000001 2,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSA Human Service Agency 1,516 FTE
NAT-TCR GA - Sony Direct 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Wilson Bohannan Company 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1607 POUGHKEEPSIE, NY 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trucchi's Supermarket #1 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE NHB 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ipsen - One Kendall Square, Cambridge MA 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waller 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Forest Envelope 44 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.