Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers · California

FreshKO Produce Services

Fresno, CA · ~139 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FreshKO Produce Services runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

FreshKO Produce Services: 2.9 TCR = 132% of Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FreshKO Produce Services safety composite

FreshKO Produce Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

FreshKO Produce Services: 2.4 → 2105.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2105.3 TCR · DART/TCR 725.95× in 2024

FreshKO Produce Services's TCR rose 2102.9 from 2.4 in 2017 to 2105.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 725.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.9 · 132% of ind

  • DART 2105.3 DART
  • RANK #14/71
  • PHOTO QSI LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~139 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: QSI LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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FreshKO Produce Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FreshKO Produce Services averages 2.9 TCR (132% of the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

FreshKO Produce Services TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2019=0.6 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2105.3 · BLS 2.2

Where FreshKO Produce Services falls in its industry

369 Produce, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 71 Produce, fresh, merchant whole employers in California.

FreshKO Produce Services (139 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 FreshKO Produce Services
FreshKO Produce Services (139 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

FreshKO Produce Services has more employees than the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 2105.3 2105.3 3 0 0
2023 2.1 1.4 3 0 0
2022 6.6 4.6 10 0 0
2019 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · CA · Fresno

369 Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 QSI LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR FreshPoint Tomato 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7175_16261 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DiMare Fresh, Inc. 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PV Farming Operations, LLC 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE SVL - 01 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Labor Inc 139 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Antelope Valley S/C 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR The Carrington Nursing Center 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Arrowhead Conveyor LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Buyers Products Company - 3UC 8120 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Controls- Park City Site 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Miramar R&D 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chapman Plywood - WP 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Transalta centralia generation 139 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elp-Ground Ops 139 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, 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.