Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Gizdich Ranch

Watsonville, CA · ~45 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gizdich Ranch runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade D.

Gizdich Ranch: 8.7 TCR = 194% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gizdich Ranch safety composite

Gizdich Ranch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gizdich Ranch: 9.5 → 14.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2024

Gizdich Ranch's TCR rose 5.4 from 9.5 in 2017 to 14.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 194% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #528/620
  • PHOTO Goyenetche Dairy LLC
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Goyenetche Dairy LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gizdich Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gizdich Ranch averages 8.7 TCR (194% 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

Gizdich Ranch TCR series: 2017=9.5 · 2018=12.6 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=2.3 · 2023=17.1 · 2024=14.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Gizdich Ranch falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #528 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Gizdich Ranch (45 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 Gizdich Ranch
Gizdich Ranch (45 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Gizdich Ranch has fewer employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a higher 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
2024 14.8 5.0 5 1 0
2023 17.1 11.4 6 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2018 12.6 10.5 6 0 0
2017 9.5 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Watsonville

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 Goyenetche Dairy LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mar-Jon Labor LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sangiacomo Family Vineyards 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 14934 Alabama Hwy 20 West (Main Cotton Gin Plant) 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salinas Transplant Company 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Firma Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald Beeman Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Mist Farms, LP 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR Shelbyville Store 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pottsville Distribution Center 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Keesecker Agri Business 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Thermo-Tech Windows LLC 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Taylorsville Rd. Store 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sage Automation, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBG, Inc. 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fox Lake Fire Protection District 45 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.