Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing · California

Fresh Creative Foods

Vista, CA · ~303 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fresh Creative Foods runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Fresh Creative Foods: 4.9 TCR = 119% of Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fresh Creative Foods safety composite

Fresh Creative Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Fresh Creative Foods: 4.4 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2023

Fresh Creative Foods's TCR rose 1.0 from 4.4 in 2019 to 5.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Vista, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 119% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #25/69
  • PHOTO A.S.K. Foods, Inc. W…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~303 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A.S.K. Foods, Inc. West Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fresh Creative Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fresh Creative Foods averages 4.9 TCR (119% of the Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fresh Creative Foods TCR series: 2019=4.4 · 2023=5.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Fresh Creative Foods falls in its industry

376 Box lunches (for sale off prem establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 69 Box lunches (for sale off prem employers in California.

Fresh Creative Foods (303 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fresh Creative Foods
Fresh Creative Foods (303 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Fresh Creative Foods has more employees than the Box lunches (for sale off premises) manu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 5.4 5.0 16 0 0
2019 4.4 4.4 17 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · CA · Vista

376 Box lunches (for sale off premises) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 197 employers in Vista, 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 A.S.K. Foods, Inc. West Plant 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bakkavor Foods USA, Texas 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sandridge Food Corporation - Medina 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 192-PL001 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Ranch 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3118_6025 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teva Pharmaceuticals 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bell Brothers Heating and Air, Inc 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR 05-CACTUS 1,065 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cactus - 05 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista HQ 758 FTE
CITY-NEAR 01-CORP 522 FTE
NAT-TCR CFC1 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Princeton Contract Production 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco Hawaii Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Paintline Plant 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Airport Community Schools 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE The City of Lake Forest 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Altoona 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1002-Ucpmc-Armory B - Tradewinds 303 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.