Vegetable vacuum cooling · California

Fresh Venture Foods

Santa Maria, CA · ~255 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fresh Venture Foods runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable vacuum cooling workplace, earning a grade D.

Fresh Venture Foods: 6.7 TCR = 150% of Vegetable vacuum cooling BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fresh Venture Foods safety composite

Fresh Venture Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.4

2017→2024

Fresh Venture Foods injury rate improved

Fresh Venture Foods's TCR fell 11.4 from 15.8 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.8 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=5.3 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 150% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #150/236
  • PHOTO Diamond Central
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 119 inj
  • SIZE ~255 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diamond Central (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fresh Venture Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fresh Venture Foods averages 6.7 TCR (150% of the Vegetable vacuum cooling BLS benchmark).

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

Fresh Venture Foods TCR series: 2017=15.8 · 2018=6.2 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=5.3 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Fresh Venture Foods falls in its industry

666 Vegetable vacuum cooling establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #150 safest of 236 Vegetable vacuum cooling employers in California.

Fresh Venture Foods (255 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fresh Venture Foods
Fresh Venture Foods (255 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Fresh Venture Foods has more employees than the Vegetable vacuum cooling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 4.3 2.9 7 2 0
2023 6.7 4.5 10 5 0
2021 5.3 2.9 11 0 0
2020 4.1 3.6 9 0 0
2019 4.8 3.6 16 0 0
2018 6.2 5.1 22 0 0
2017 15.8 12.2 44 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Santa Maria

666 Vegetable vacuum cooling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 Diamond Central 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORANGE COVE-SANGER CITRUS ASSOCIATION 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&M Warehouse & Packing Inc 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Varsity Packing, Inc 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-West Valley 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE 29050002-4148 AXS GROUP LOS ANGELES HQ 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE T-Y Nursery, Inc. 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE SANTA ROSA SERVICE CENTER 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR DeSaussure Equipment Company 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Seville,OH - 306 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Watershed Foods 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR American Falls Agronomy 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Berry Global Films, LLC 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joe Basil Chevrolet, Inc. 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mont Belvieu Plastics Plant 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE 20189 Westmont 255 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.