Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing · California

HA Rider & Son's

Watsonville, CA · ~55 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HA Rider & Son's runs at 284% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

HA Rider & Son's: 9.4 TCR = 284% of Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HA Rider & Son's safety composite

HA Rider & Son's scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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 9.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.9

2021→2023

HA Rider & Son's injury rate improved

HA Rider & Son's's TCR fell 7.9 from 18.0 in 2021 to 10.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 18.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=18.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=10.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.4 · 284% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #34/43
  • PHOTO RIVERSIDE CA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RIVERSIDE CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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HA Rider & Son's in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HA Rider & Son's averages 9.4 TCR (284% of the Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

HA Rider & Son's TCR series: 2021=18 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.1 · BLS 3.3

Where HA Rider & Son's falls in its industry

516 Beverages, soft drink (includi establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #34 safest of 43 Beverages, soft drink (includi employers in California.

HA Rider & Son's (55 employees, TCR 9.4) 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 & Son's
HA Rider & Son's (55 employees, TCR 9.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

HA Rider & Son's has fewer employees than the Beverages, soft drink (including artific 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
2023 10.1 8.1 4 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 11 3 0
2021 18.0 18.0 10 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312111 · CA · Watsonville

516 Beverages, soft drink (including artificially carbonated waters), 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 RIVERSIDE CA 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buffalo Rock Pensacola 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCCDP Joplin 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1038 - Alsip Production 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE FARMING ADMINISTRATION 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dwelley Family Farms LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Valley Vineyard Management 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cornerstone Certified Vineyard 55 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 Chippewa Falls 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Villas of South Park 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wichita Kansas 9.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pyromet LLC 9.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cox Trucking Inc. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Exhale Atlanta 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elite Curb and Concrete LLC. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Administration 55 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. 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.