Citrus grove cultivation services · California

Griffith Farms

Exeter, CA · ~123 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Griffith Farms runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Citrus grove cultivation services workplace, earning a grade D.

Griffith Farms: 8.0 TCR = 177% of Citrus grove cultivation services BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Griffith Farms safety composite

Griffith Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−7.2

2017→2024

Griffith Farms injury rate improved

Griffith Farms's TCR fell 7.2 from 14.0 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=14.0 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=4.7 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115112 · Exeter, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 177% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #61/86
  • PHOTO North Agronomy Cente…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Agronomy Center Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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Griffith Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Griffith Farms averages 8.0 TCR (177% of the Citrus grove cultivation services BLS benchmark).

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

Griffith Farms TCR series: 2017=14 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=4.7 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Griffith Farms falls in its industry

221 Citrus grove cultivation servi establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 86 Citrus grove cultivation servi employers in California.

Griffith Farms (123 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Griffith Farms
Griffith Farms (123 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Griffith Farms has more employees than the Citrus grove cultivation services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 6.7 4.5 3 0 0
2023 8.9 2.2 4 0 0
2022 6.3 6.3 5 0 0
2019 4.7 4.7 5 0 0
2018 7.1 4.4 6 2 0
2017 14.0 7.5 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115112 · CA · Exeter

221 Citrus grove cultivation services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 26 employers in Exeter, 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 North Agronomy Center Division 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Country Pride services 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Pacific Farming l Citrus Farming l Arvin 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indy 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Four Star Fruit 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE CADY2 - 05 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Vineyards 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeBernardi Bros 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gutierrez FLC Inc 1,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exeter - F031 330 FTE
CITY-NEAR farm labor 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BAKING CO 214 FTE
NAT-TCR 1543 Lindenwold SD 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Riedman Properties EP1 LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LoTemp Equipment Company 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherry Valley Il - 3042 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE AerSale Roswell Aircraft MRO Operations Center 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Ridge Hospital and Health Services 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE BMW of Sarasota 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barmona Logistics LLC 123 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, 2022, 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.