Farm labor contractors · California

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc

Shafter, CA · ~729 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc: 1.3 TCR = 29% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc safety composite

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2024

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 29% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #83/620
  • PHOTO Southern Gardens Gro…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~729 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southern Gardens Groves Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc averages 1.3 TCR (29% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 87% 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 #83 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc (729 employees, TCR 1.3) 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 Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc
Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc (729 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Golden State Farm Labor Contracting Inc has more employees than the Farm labor contractors 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
2024 2.6 2.6 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Shafter

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 66 employers in Shafter, 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 Southern Gardens Groves Corporation 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR R MEDINA FLC 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elite Ag Services 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monrovia Nursery 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CIELO AZUL CONTRACTING INC 730 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nutrilite 730 FTE
STATE-SIZE James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics - VK 728 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chess 730 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL2 1,819 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0593 - Shafter CA DC 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Valley Distribution Center CVDC 1,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0593 - Bakersfield DC 1,179 FTE
NAT-TCR Paola Service Center 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR McLaughlin Construction Corp. DBA Edbauer Construction 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HGAKB03 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MadTree Brewing, LLC 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farbest Foods Huntingburg 729 FTE
NAT-SIZE I I Stanley Co., Inc. 729 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rally Credit Union 729 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Refining LP 729 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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