Alcoholic beverages, brandy, distilling · California

Heck Cellars

Arvin, CA · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heck Cellars runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Alcoholic beverages, brandy, distilling workplace, earning a grade B.

Heck Cellars: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Alcoholic beverages, brandy, distilling BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heck Cellars safety composite

Heck Cellars scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

Heck Cellars: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.24× in 2023

Heck Cellars's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 312130 · Arvin, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #30/224
  • PHOTO SMD VINEYARDS INC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SMD VINEYARDS INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heck Cellars in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heck Cellars averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Alcoholic beverages, brandy, distilling BLS benchmark).

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

Heck Cellars TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.3 · 2019=0 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Heck Cellars falls in its industry

309 Alcoholic beverages, brandy, d establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 224 Alcoholic beverages, brandy, d employers in California.

Heck Cellars (40 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Heck Cellars
Heck Cellars (40 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Heck Cellars has fewer employees than the Alcoholic beverages, brandy, distilling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2022 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

312130 · CA · Arvin

309 Alcoholic beverages, brandy, distilling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 41 employers in Arvin, 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 SMD VINEYARDS INC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Messina Hof Wine Cellars, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Round Barn Winery 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chehalem Winery 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore Labor Inc. 5,865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malaga Facility 1,391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tasteful Selections, LLC 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR MALAGA CUT/SNACK 570 FTE
NAT-TCR ACC-MEM 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Develey Mustard and Condiments 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Commercial HVAC Americas : SVC-California Southwest Hawaii : SVC-Albuquerque NM-USA 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Prime Now LLC - UMA3 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gilmore Construction Corporation 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE EarthCruiser HQ 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Highlands Ranch 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Malko 40 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, 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.