Pork rinds manufacturing · California

Gaytan Foods

Industry, CA · ~107 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gaytan Foods runs at 280% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pork rinds manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Gaytan Foods: 11.5 TCR = 280% of Pork rinds manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gaytan Foods safety composite

Gaytan Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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 11.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−2.2

2017→2019

Gaytan Foods injury rate improved

Gaytan Foods's TCR fell 2.2 from 9.8 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.8 · 2018=17.0 · 2019=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Industry, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 280% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO Popcorn Alley Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Popcorn Alley Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gaytan Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gaytan Foods averages 11.5 TCR (280% of the Pork rinds manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gaytan Foods TCR series: 2017=9.8 · 2018=17 · 2019=7.7 · BLS 4.1

Where Gaytan Foods falls in its industry

253 Pork rinds manufacturing establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Pork rinds manufacturing employers in California.

Gaytan Foods (107 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gaytan Foods
Gaytan Foods (107 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Gaytan Foods has fewer employees than the Pork rinds manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2019 7.7 1.8 13 0 0
2018 17.0 17.0 13 1 0
2017 9.8 5.9 7 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · CA · Industry

253 Pork rinds manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 23 employers in Industry, 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 Popcorn Alley Inc. 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rudolph Foods Company Beaumont 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dot's Lenexa 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 1 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Munger Bros, LLC 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Growers Transplanting 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte California LLC - Blythe Ranch 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Coast Tomato Growers, Inc. 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morrow Meadows Corp. 2,022 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRL Glass Systems, Inc. 417 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anning-Johnson Company Southern California 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Freshpoint Southern California Inc 310 FTE
NAT-TCR Meadow Gold Boise - Boise Dist 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR South Broadway Place Hotel Assoc. 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Mark Village Assisted Living Center 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Health Oakwood Village 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northfield Block - Morris 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piedmont Hardware Brands 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logan Care and Rehabilitation 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE CoorsTek, Inc. Milford, NH 107 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: 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.