Tomato farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production · California

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc.

Walnut Grove, CA · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tomato farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc.: 6.3 TCR = 140% of Tomato farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. safety composite

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−4.5

2017→2018

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. injury rate improved

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.5 from 8.6 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.6 · 2018=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Walnut Grove, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 140% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #99/175
  • PHOTO Robert Nickerson Far…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Robert Nickerson Farms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. averages 6.3 TCR (140% of the Tomato farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. falls in its industry

331 Tomato farming (except under c establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #99 safest of 175 Tomato farming (except under c employers in California.

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc.
Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. (21 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. has fewer employees than the Tomato farming (except under cover), fie 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
2018 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2017 8.6 8.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Walnut Grove

331 Tomato farming (except under cover), field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 3 employers in Walnut Grove, 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 Robert Nickerson Farms, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wiers Farm Inc 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boutonnet Farms 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR T&A - Yuma - Harvest 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Mardo Davis 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kay Dix, Inc. 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malcolm McCormack, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #78 (Rapid City, SD) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Queensbury 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bolt Custom Trucks 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Killeen Machine Tool 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Garl-Hct-North Dallas 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE TYLER-HCT-TYLER 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tfrpf-Tfr-Tfr - Pflugerville 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residence Inn Pontiac 21 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: 2018, 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.