Farm labor contractors · California

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting

Santa Maria, CA · ~107 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting: 4.5 TCR = 101% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting safety composite

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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. - Santa Maria Transplanting: 1.9 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2020

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting's TCR rose 4.2 from 1.9 in 2017 to 6.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 101% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #326/620
  • PHOTO Organic Alternatives
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~107 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Organic Alternatives (0.0 TCR gap)

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Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting averages 4.5 TCR (101% 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. - Santa Maria Transplanting TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=6.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 49% 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 #326 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting (107 employees, TCR 4.5) 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. - Santa Maria Transplanting
Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting (107 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Santa Maria Transplanting has more 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 6.1 4.1 3 0 0
2019 6.1 4.1 3 0 0
2018 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Santa Maria

836 Farm labor contractors 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Organic Alternatives 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR E.E. Hall Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & M FARM LABOR SERVICE, INC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gallup and Stribling Orchids, LLC. 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Munger Bros, LLC 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Growers Transplanting 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte California LLC - Blythe Ranch 107 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Coast Tomato Growers, Inc. 107 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 Amzl : Dcl1 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : ATL7 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Residential -Thistledown 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR UMS Wausau 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE OPW Civacon 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Triangle Hardwoods 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premium Waters Inc. Douglas GA 107 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Penn Wire 107 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.