Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Heritage Farms LLC

El Centro, CA · ~125 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heritage Farms LLC runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade D.

Heritage Farms LLC: 8.6 TCR = 190% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heritage Farms LLC safety composite

Heritage Farms LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2016→2020

Heritage Farms LLC injury rate improved

Heritage Farms LLC's TCR fell 3.9 from 8.1 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.1 · 2017=11.0 · 2019=11.0 · 2020=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · El Centro, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 190% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #520/620
  • PHOTO Grether Farming Comp…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grether Farming Company, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heritage Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heritage Farms LLC averages 8.6 TCR (190% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

Heritage Farms LLC TCR series: 2016=8.1 · 2017=11 · 2019=11 · 2020=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Heritage Farms LLC falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #520 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Heritage Farms LLC (125 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Heritage Farms LLC
Heritage Farms LLC (125 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Heritage Farms LLC has more employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre 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 4.2 3.9 13 0 0
2019 11.0 8.4 17 0 0
2017 11.0 5.5 10 0 0
2016 8.1 5.4 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · El Centro

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 91 employers in El Centro, 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 Grether Farming Company, Inc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automated Harvesting LLc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Nipomo Farm 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shryne Group - Greenfield Organix 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Maywood Farms 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bowland Vineyard Management, Inc. 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ventura Pacific 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mike Etchandy Farms, Inc. 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Imperial 2,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR JJ HARVESTING 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 350 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro 971 FTE
NAT-TCR J. D'Amico, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Westminster Winter Park 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ingalls Shipbuilding 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR OTC - Omaha - Mindware 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stock Yards / Birmingham 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dia, Dc 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE AHC Northbrooke 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE CFG Systems Inc 125 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.