Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers · California

Homegrown Organic Farms

Name: Homegrown Organic Farms Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Porterville, CA · ~53 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.7
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Homegrown Organic Farms runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade A.

Homegrown Organic Farms: 0.7 TCR = 31% of Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Homegrown Organic Farms safety composite

Homegrown Organic Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Homegrown Organic Farms: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.51× in 2024

Homegrown Organic Farms's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 2.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Porterville, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 31% of ind

DART 1.7 DART
RANK #5/71
PHOTO Minkus Family Farms
BOOK 6y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Minkus Family Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.7
Minkus Family

0.7
Heart of the H

0.7
FFTY Office Ad

0.7
DiMare Fresh

0.6

What this shows Homegrown Organic Farms averages 0.7 TCR (31% of the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Homegrown Organic Farms TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Homegrown Organic Farms falls in its industry

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 71 Fresh fruits, vegetables and b employers in California.

Homegrown Organic Farms (53 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Homegrown Organic Farms has fewer employees than the Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries mer median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2024	1.7	1.7	1
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	2.4	2.4	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · CA · Porterville

369 Fresh fruits, vegetables and berries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 147 employers in Porterville, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Minkus Family Farms	NEW HAMPTON, NY	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Heart of the Harvest, Inc	HARTFORD, CT	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FFTY Office Admin	WEST SACRAMENTO, CA	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DiMare Fresh	FORT WORTH, TX	0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	P-R Farms	CLOVIS	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LRC LABOR SERVICES INC	PORTERVILLE	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Acemi Nursery	KERMAN	53 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ball Tagawa Growers	ARROYO GRANDE	53 FTE
CITY-NEAR	California Department of Transportation Facility 173	Porterville	1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AG	Porterville	1,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ag Star Harvesting Inc 1	Porterville	1,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6021	Porterville	1,030 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ungerer & Company	Lincoln Park, NJ	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Satco Inc	Baton Rouge, LA	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Harbour Contractors, Inc.	Plainfield, IL	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bridgewater - Bausch Health	Bridgewater, NJ	0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	CWMF Corporation	Waite Park, MN	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Arclin Surfaces	East Longmeadow, MA	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Avamere at Park Place	Portland, OR	53 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bridges of Iowa	Des Moines, IA	53 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.