Strawberry farming · California

Gull Island Farms

Oxnard, CA · ~158 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gull Island Farms runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Gull Island Farms: 5.3 TCR = 117% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gull Island Farms safety composite

Gull Island Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−4.0

2017→2023

Gull Island Farms injury rate improved

Gull Island Farms's TCR fell 4.0 from 6.0 in 2017 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.0 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Oxnard, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.3 · 117% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #76/124
  • PHOTO River Ranch
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: River Ranch (0.2 TCR gap)

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Gull Island Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gull Island Farms averages 5.3 TCR (117% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Gull Island Farms TCR series: 2017=6 · 2018=6.5 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Gull Island Farms falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #76 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Gull Island Farms (158 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gull Island Farms
Gull Island Farms (158 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Gull Island Farms has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2022 1.7 0.0 2 0 0
2021 6.5 4.8 6 2 0
2020 7.5 5.5 10 1 0
2019 6.6 5.3 10 0 0
2018 6.5 5.0 7 2 0
2017 6.0 2.4 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Oxnard

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 303 employers in Oxnard, 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 River Ranch 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 884_2353 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MI RANCHITO FARMING INC 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm Labor Service of Central Cal, Inc. 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moreno Valley #046 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Redlands 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE DAYLIGHT FOODS INC 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OXR1 2,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Oxnard 1,753 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030383 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Regional Medical Center 1,352 FTE
NAT-TCR CLS - Milwaukee 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Aberdeen CIH 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Schein - TXDAL 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cash Saver 217 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE NS Flexibles LLC dba St Johns Packaging 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheriff's Department 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE ALUDEC USA - Decorating 158 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.