Hay farming (e.g., alfalfa hay, clover hay, grass hay) · California

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm

Blythe, CA · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hay farming (e.g., alfalfa hay, clover hay, grass hay) workplace, earning a grade D.

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm: 9.0 TCR = 199% of Hay farming (e.g., alfalfa hay, clover hay, grass hay) BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm safety composite

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm: 4.0 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2020

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm's TCR rose 8.0 from 4.0 in 2018 to 12.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111940 · Blythe, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.0 · 199% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #15/18
  • PHOTO Atkinson Farms II, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Atkinson Farms II, Inc (0.4 TCR gap)

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Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm averages 9.0 TCR (199% of the Hay farming (e.g., alfalfa hay, clover hay, grass hay) BLS benchmark).

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

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=12 · BLS 4.5

Where Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm falls in its industry

31 Hay farming (e.g., alfalfa hay establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 18 Hay farming (e.g., alfalfa hay employers in California.

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm (94 employees, TCR 9.0) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 14 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 050100150 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm
Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm (94 employees, TCR 9.0) among 13 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm has more employees than the Hay farming (e.g., alfalfa hay, clover h median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2020 12.0 12.0 9 4 0
2019 10.9 10.9 8 1 0
2018 4.0 3.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111940 · CA · Blythe

31 Hay farming (e.g., alfalfa hay, clover hay, grass hay) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Blythe, 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 Atkinson Farms II, Inc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calipatria Farm 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 518 Farming, Inc 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR H Four Farms III 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0056 Encino 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Accurate Logistic LLC 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palihotel San Diego 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0126 Mission Viejo 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 548 1,679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ironwood State Prison 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHUCKAWALLA VALLEY STATE PRISON 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Verde Healthcare District 121 FTE
NAT-TCR 551 Cranston, Ri 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Villa Marie 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cellofoam-Conyers, GA-ROTO 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Illinois Area of Special Education 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Landmark of Lancaster Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN Rubber & Plastics HQ 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Division 7 Construction Inc 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE SA Scientific Ltd. 94 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.