Irrigation system operation · California

Franklin Maintenance Yard

Merced, CA · ~79 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franklin Maintenance Yard runs at 388% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Irrigation system operation workplace, earning a grade F.

Franklin Maintenance Yard: 4.7 TCR = 388% of Irrigation system operation BLS 1.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin Maintenance Yard safety composite

Franklin Maintenance Yard scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Franklin Maintenance Yard: 5.2 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

Franklin Maintenance Yard's TCR rose 0.7 from 5.2 in 2017 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 388% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #85/176
  • PHOTO Yakima-Tieton Irriga…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franklin Maintenance Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franklin Maintenance Yard averages 4.7 TCR (388% of the Irrigation system operation BLS benchmark).

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

Franklin Maintenance Yard TCR series: 2017=5.2 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=6.7 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Franklin Maintenance Yard falls in its industry

727 Irrigation system operation establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #85 safest of 176 Irrigation system operation employers in California.

Franklin Maintenance Yard (79 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Franklin Maintenance Yard
Franklin Maintenance Yard (79 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Franklin Maintenance Yard has more employees than the Irrigation system operation 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
2024 5.9 3.5 5 0 0
2023 3.8 3.8 3 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2019 6.7 1.7 3 1 0
2018 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2017 5.2 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · CA · Merced

727 Irrigation system operation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, 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 Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piedmont Water Company 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Saint Paul - Saint Paul Regional Water Services 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Municipal 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crisalida Berry Farms, LLC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE L E Cooke Co 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOBI'S 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Maricopa 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR WSC GAFB Food Service 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Louis - 7th Street 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pelham Medical Center 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gabila Food Products, Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cleveland 155 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dayton 067 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kuharchik Construction 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murphy Drive 79 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019, 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.