Farm labor contractors · California

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm

Nipomo, CA · ~93 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm: 8.5 TCR = 190% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm safety composite

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm: 7.2 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2020

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm's TCR rose 1.9 from 7.2 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.5 · 190% of ind

  • DART 9.1 DART
  • RANK #519/620
  • PHOTO Adobe Walls Gin LP
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Adobe Walls Gin LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm averages 8.5 TCR (190% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm TCR series: 2017=7.2 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=10.8 · 2020=9.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #519 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm (93 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm
Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm (93 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm has fewer employees than the Farm labor contractors 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
2020 9.1 9.1 5 0 0
2019 10.8 9.0 6 0 0
2018 7.2 5.4 4 0 0
2017 7.2 3.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Nipomo

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in Nipomo, 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 Adobe Walls Gin LP 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heritage Farms LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grether Farming Company, Inc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automated Harvesting LLc 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. View Farming, Inc. 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAC-MAN 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE E A & T 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Meadow Mushroom Farms, Inc. 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buenaventura Ranch, LLC 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sarc, Inc. 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR WE LOVE BERRIES LLC 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cal South Harvesting LLC 285 FTE
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dpx5 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-721-Williams Sonoma 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-623-West Elm 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TNI - San Antonio, TX 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lorien Hotel & Spa 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Christus St Francis Cabrini Hospital 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Resthaven Maple Woods 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moran Nursing and Rehabilitation 93 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.