Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production · California

Fresh Foods, Inc.

King City, CA · ~156 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fresh Foods, Inc. runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade F.

Fresh Foods, Inc.: 11.5 TCR = 255% of Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fresh Foods, Inc. safety composite

Fresh Foods, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

−6.7

2023→2024

Fresh Foods, Inc. injury rate improved

Fresh Foods, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.7 from 14.8 in 2023 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=14.8 · 2024=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · King City, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 255% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #162/175
  • PHOTO TLC Custom Farming C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TLC Custom Farming Company LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fresh Foods, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fresh Foods, Inc. averages 11.5 TCR (255% of the Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Fresh Foods, Inc. TCR series: 2023=14.8 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Fresh Foods, Inc. falls in its industry

331 Romaine lettuce farming, field establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #162 safest of 175 Romaine lettuce farming, field employers in California.

Fresh Foods, Inc. (156 employees, TCR 11.5) 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 Fresh Foods, Inc.
Fresh Foods, Inc. (156 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Fresh Foods, Inc. has more employees than the Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed 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
2024 8.2 7.1 13 2 0
2023 14.8 11.6 28 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · King City

331 Romaine lettuce farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in King City, 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 TLC Custom Farming Company LLC 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond D Farm 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORGANIC BUNCH HARVESTING 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR T&A Onions - Salinas - Harvest 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Celery 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Villa Park Strathmore 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Packing Plant 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Reyes Contracting Inc 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGP FARM LABOR LLC 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rio Farms 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farming 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvest 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Holmes Regional Med Ctr Evs 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Orijin Stone 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Viewpointe 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lyons & Hohl Paving Contractors 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town & Country Distributors, INC 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE ShopRite Of Garnerville # 292 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plastic Products Co., Inc. - Lindstrom, MN 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Sky Dairy 156 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. 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.