Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · California

Gold Coast Farms

Santa Maria, CA · ~18 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gold Coast Farms runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Gold Coast Farms: 5.5 TCR = 123% of Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gold Coast Farms safety composite

Gold Coast Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−5.5

2022→2024

Gold Coast Farms injury rate improved

Gold Coast Farms's TCR fell 5.5 from 11.1 in 2022 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 11.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=11.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #81/175
  • PHOTO Duncan Family Farms-…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Duncan Family Farms-Goodyear (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gold Coast Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gold Coast Farms averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Gold Coast Farms TCR series: 2022=11.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Gold Coast Farms falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and potato farming, establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 175 Vegetable and potato farming, employers in California.

Gold Coast Farms (18 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Gold Coast Farms
Gold Coast Farms (18 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Gold Coast Farms has fewer employees than the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 11.1 11.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Santa Maria

331 Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Duncan Family Farms-Goodyear 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR J & G Contract Labor, Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacifc International Marketing 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Terranova Ranch, Inc 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Hibino Farms LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATAVIA, INC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE HM.CLAUSE Davis East Research Station 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE BLRDG 18 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 Arden Courts of Westlake 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR APX Enclosures, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR P&S Bakery, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2690 Hornbacher's Gateway West 5.5 TCR

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. 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.