Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing · California

Golden State Herbs

Name: Golden State Herbs Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Indio, CA · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Golden State Herbs runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Golden State Herbs: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Golden State Herbs safety composite

Golden State Herbs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers
DART rate: D 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−3.2

2018→2019

Golden State Herbs injury rate improved

Golden State Herbs's TCR fell 3.2 from 7.3 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.3 · 2019=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Indio, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

DART 4.1 DART
RANK #17/25
PHOTO Basic American Ingre…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Basic American Ingredients (0.1 TCR gap)

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Basic American

5.8
Blackfoot - BA

5.8
Idahoan Foods,

5.8
This site

5.7
Sensient Natur

5.6

What this shows Golden State Herbs averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Golden State Herbs TCR series: 2018=7.3 · 2019=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Golden State Herbs falls in its industry

123 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrat establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 25 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrat employers in California.

Golden State Herbs (47 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Golden State Herbs has fewer employees than the Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manuf 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
2019	4.1	4.1	2	0	0
2018	7.3	7.3	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · CA · Indio

123 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 85 employers in Indio, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Basic American Ingredients	BLACKFOOT, ID	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Blackfoot - BAF	BLACKFOOT, ID	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sensient Natural Ingredients, Livingston	LIVINGSTON, CA	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Idahoan Foods, LLC - Rupert Plant	RUPERT, ID	5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bowles Farming Company,Inc.	LOS BANOS,	47 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ruiz Farm Labor	DIXON	47 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fresh Valley Harvesting, LLC.	SANTA MARIA	47 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Timothy & Viguie C.S.V.	DIXON	47 FTE
CITY-NEAR	California Department of Transportation Facility 591	Indio	1,679 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino	Indio	1,269 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fantasy Springs Resort Casino	Indio	1,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ono-067	Indio	917 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lewisville Tx/Ne Tx Dist Office	Lewisville, TX	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Conemaugh Nason Medical Center	Roaring Spring, PA	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0027 1660	Yakima, WA	5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0020 1896	Cedar Park, TX	5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Tucker Printers	Henrietta, NY	47 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stericycle Environmental Solutions - Gary,IN	Gary, IN	47 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cardinal Health - PD - Salt Lake City, UT	Salt Lake City, UT	47 FTE
NAT-SIZE	TTI- Winston Salem, NC	Winston Salem, NC	47 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. 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.