Beverages, fruit and vegetable drinks, cocktails, and ades, manufacturing · California

HA Rider & Sons

Watsonville, CA · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HA Rider & Sons runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beverages, fruit and vegetable drinks, cocktails, and ades, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

HA Rider & Sons: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Beverages, fruit and vegetable drinks, cocktails, and ades, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HA Rider & Sons safety composite

HA Rider & Sons scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

HA Rider & Sons: 0.0 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

HA Rider & Sons's TCR rose 8.9 from 0.0 in 2022 to 8.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312111 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #27/43
  • PHOTO Coca-Cola Bottling C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coca-Cola Bottling Co.- Plymouth, In Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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HA Rider & Sons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HA Rider & Sons averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Beverages, fruit and vegetable drinks, cocktails, and ades, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HA Rider & Sons TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where HA Rider & Sons falls in its industry

516 Beverages, fruit and vegetable establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 43 Beverages, fruit and vegetable employers in California.

HA Rider & Sons (48 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate HA Rider & Sons
HA Rider & Sons (48 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

HA Rider & Sons has fewer employees than the Beverages, fruit and vegetable drinks, c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 8.9 4.5 2 2 0
2023 10.1 8.1 4 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 11 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · CA · Watsonville

516 Beverages, fruit and vegetable drinks, cocktails, and ades, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 Coca-Cola Bottling Co.- Plymouth, In Division 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duquoin 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swire Coca-Cola of Albuquerque 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home juice Corp Melrose Park 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ARVIN PRODUCTION & ADMIN 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rava Business Park 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guerrero Transportation & Contracting Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE VPS, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR Fontana-Randall 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1047 - Hilltop 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vita Builders, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Conifer Specialties, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE S & B Finishing Co Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Z-Tech Insulation, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trade Access 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harwood 48 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.