Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Freshway Farms LLC

Santa Maria, CA · ~442 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freshway Farms LLC runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade C.

Freshway Farms LLC: 4.1 TCR = 90% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freshway Farms LLC safety composite

Freshway Farms LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Freshway Farms LLC held a steady TCR band

Freshway Farms LLC's TCR held near 0.3 from 4.3 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.3 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Santa Maria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 90% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #299/620
  • PHOTO La Alianza, LP
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 120 inj
  • SIZE ~442 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: La Alianza, LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freshway Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freshway Farms LLC averages 4.1 TCR (90% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

Freshway Farms LLC TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=5 · 2021=5 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Freshway Farms LLC falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #299 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Freshway Farms LLC (442 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Freshway Farms LLC
Freshway Farms LLC (442 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Freshway Farms LLC has more employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2022 4.5 4.3 21 0 0
2021 5.0 4.2 23 0 0
2020 5.0 4.2 23 0 0
2019 3.2 2.5 12 1 0
2018 2.3 1.7 16 0 0
2017 4.3 3.9 25 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Santa Maria

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews 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 La Alianza, LP 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA Alamo Ag Solutions, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christensen & Giannini LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herrema Dairy LLC 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Infineon Technologies_San Jose 198 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flex - Americas Center 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZHAY 442 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUNSET SCAVENGER COMPANY 442 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 Wysong Enterprises, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR EP On-site (Caterpillar) 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingston Rehab of Perrysburg 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4186-DC203 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US PA Coatesville 110 Stewart (5265) 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZAUS 442 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZMRT 442 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.