Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc.

Salinas, CA · ~500 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade D.

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc.: 8.0 TCR = 178% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. safety composite

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. held a steady TCR band

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 8.1 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.1 · 2018=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #503/620
  • PHOTO Shannon Ranches, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 106 inj
  • SIZE ~500 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Shannon Ranches, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. averages 8.0 TCR (178% 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

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. TCR series: 2017=8.1 · 2018=8 · BLS 4.5

Where Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #503 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. (500 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Hilltown Packing Co., Inc.
Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. (500 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Hilltown Packing Co., Inc. 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
2018 8.0 7.1 53 3 0
2017 8.1 6.7 53 6 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 Shannon Ranches, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR D&J Packing, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Sun Grower Services 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MGM LABOR CONTRACTING INC 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE TCCo-NorCal 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Creamery, Inc. 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sherman Oaks Fashion Square 501 500 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Valley Express Inc. 500 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 Topeka Burrito Plant 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0005-Carolinas Med Center - Mercy 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cochran Infiniti of North Hills 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawton SNF Operations, LLC D/B/A Montevista 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE HHG Lenoir Upholstery Plant 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE LTD Aurora (Westridge) # 7 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE MN,BEMIDJI - Medical Center Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) 500 FTE
NAT-SIZE 24081 E. Mission Ave 500 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: 2018, 2017. 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.