Fresh meats merchant wholesalers · California

Fruitland

Vernon, CA · ~211 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fruitland runs at 323% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh meats merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Fruitland: 7.1 TCR = 323% of Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fruitland safety composite

Fruitland scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2023→2024

Fruitland injury rate improved

Fruitland's TCR fell 2.3 from 8.2 in 2023 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.2 · 2024=6.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424470 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 323% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #14/22
  • PHOTO UW Provision Company…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~211 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UW Provision Company, Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fruitland in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fruitland averages 7.1 TCR (323% of the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fruitland TCR series: 2023=8.2 · 2024=6 · BLS 2.2

Where Fruitland falls in its industry

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesale establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 22 Fresh meats merchant wholesale employers in California.

Fruitland (211 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Fruitland
Fruitland (211 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Fruitland has more employees than the Fresh meats merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 6.0 5.5 14 0 0
2023 8.2 7.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424470 · CA · Vernon

162 Fresh meats merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, 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 UW Provision Company, Inc 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Perishables, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Weinstein Wholesale Meats- MPI 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR A.I. Foods Corporation 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Zuckerman Heritage Inc. 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. Montanez Farms, LLC 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE W J Griffin, Inc. 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE TLF 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR OLEAN 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Andrews 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Danbury North Ridgeville 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Penn Jersey Paper 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bittersweet, Inc. 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smoky Mountain Family Farms LLC - Newport TN PH 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE South-Frmc1-South Campus 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denyo Manufacturing Corporation 211 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.

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