Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · California

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station

Davis, CA · ~90 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station: 6.5 TCR = 145% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station safety composite

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 37%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station: 4.9 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station's TCR rose 2.0 from 4.9 in 2017 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Davis, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 145% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #103/175
  • PHOTO Naples Packing House
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Naples Packing House (0.0 TCR gap)

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HM Clause - Davis West Research Station in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HM Clause - Davis West Research Station averages 6.5 TCR (145% of the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=1.4 · 2022=14.8 · 2023=11.4 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 4.5

Where HM Clause - Davis West Research Station falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 175 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in California.

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station (90 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate HM Clause - Davis West Research Station
HM Clause - Davis West Research Station (90 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

HM Clause - Davis West Research Station has more employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 6.9 4.1 5 0 0
2023 11.4 8.6 0 8 0
2022 14.8 13.3 4 6 0
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.8 2.4 4 0 0
2017 4.9 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Davis

331 Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 63 employers in Davis, 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 Naples Packing House 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Babe Blosser Ranch 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Queen Victoria Farms, LP 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turek Farms Management Inc. 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holland America Flowers, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hettinga - California 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & R Contracting 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lowell Farms - Spence Facility 90 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Davis 24,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30290) 714 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Davis Hospital (110-3001) 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teichert Construction Woodland 382 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Virginia 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kalin Construction Co., Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Engraving, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mity, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Torrington Wyoming Facility 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE S08704 - WM Recycle Tampa 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feralloy Midwest Division, Loc'n 327 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Graphics North - 0028 90 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.