Melon farming (e.g., cantaloupe, casaba, honeydew, watermelon), field, bedding plant and seed production · California

J & G Contract Labor, Inc

Firebaugh, CA · ~13 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J & G Contract Labor, Inc runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Melon farming (e.g., cantaloupe, casaba, honeydew, watermelon), field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

J & G Contract Labor, Inc: 5.5 TCR = 123% of Melon farming (e.g., cantaloupe, casaba, honeydew, watermelon), field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J & G Contract Labor, Inc safety composite

J & G Contract Labor, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2018→2023

J & G Contract Labor, Inc injury rate improved

J & G Contract Labor, Inc's TCR fell 2.2 from 6.7 in 2018 to 4.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.7 · 2023=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #80/175
  • PHOTO Gold Coast Farms
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~13 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gold Coast Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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J & G Contract Labor, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J & G Contract Labor, Inc averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the Melon farming (e.g., cantaloupe, casaba, honeydew, watermelon), field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

J & G Contract Labor, Inc TCR series: 2018=6.7 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 4.5

Where J & G Contract Labor, Inc falls in its industry

331 Melon farming (e.g., cantaloup establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #80 safest of 175 Melon farming (e.g., cantaloup employers in California.

J & G Contract Labor, Inc (13 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 J & G Contract Labor, Inc
J & G Contract Labor, Inc (13 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

J & G Contract Labor, Inc has fewer employees than the Melon farming (e.g., cantaloupe, casaba, median and a lower 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
2023 4.4 2.9 2 1 0
2018 6.7 6.1 9 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Firebaugh

331 Melon farming (e.g., cantaloupe, casaba, honeydew, watermelon), field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 37 employers in Firebaugh, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Gold Coast Farms 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duncan Family Farms-Goodyear 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacifc International Marketing 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Del Carlo Farms, Inc. 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Inc 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Concepcion Ramirez Farms 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE David E. Carlucci Diversified Farming 13 FTE
STATE-SIZE Williams & Williams Hay Contracting 13 FTE
CITY-NEAR S.H. SMITH FARMS INC 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR TomaTek 629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peri & Sons Farms of California, LLC 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR I.S.A. CONTRACTING SERVICES, INC. 264 FTE
NAT-TCR HG Fire Systems, LP 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR M&M Transport - Indy Operations 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Danfoss Power Solutions 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR WEL-Life at Elk Point 5.5 TCR

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: 2023, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.