Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Higashi Farms, Inc

Salinas, CA · ~36 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Higashi Farms, Inc runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade B.

Higashi Farms, Inc: 3.5 TCR = 79% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Higashi Farms, Inc safety composite

Higashi Farms, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Higashi Farms, Inc: 4.9 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.85× in 2024

Higashi Farms, Inc's TCR rose 1.6 from 4.9 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Salinas, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 79% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #258/620
  • PHOTO Mena Labor LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mena Labor LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Higashi Farms, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Higashi Farms, Inc averages 3.5 TCR (79% 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

Higashi Farms, Inc TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=3 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Higashi Farms, Inc falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 59% 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 #258 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Higashi Farms, Inc (36 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Higashi Farms, Inc
Higashi Farms, Inc (36 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Higashi Farms, Inc has fewer employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a lower 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
2024 6.5 6.5 2 0 0
2023 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2022 3.0 0.0 0 1 0
2021 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2020 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.9 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Salinas

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 Mena Labor LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheehan Farm, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sequoia Farm Labor Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress FLC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Park High School Dist 108 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Piqua Paper Box Co. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lancaster Office 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Two Rivers 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Production Unlimited 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tyler Corrugated Box Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Culligan - Phoenix 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Houston HQ 36 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, 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.