Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · California

James Diedrich Farms

Firebaugh, CA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James Diedrich Farms runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade C.

James Diedrich Farms: 4.0 TCR = 88% of Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Diedrich Farms safety composite

James Diedrich Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

James Diedrich Farms: 0.0 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

James Diedrich Farms's TCR rose 7.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 7.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Firebaugh, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 88% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #51/175
  • PHOTO West Coast Harvestin…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Coast Harvesting Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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James Diedrich Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows James Diedrich Farms averages 4.0 TCR (88% of the Truck farming, 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

James Diedrich Farms TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=7.9 · BLS 4.5

Where James Diedrich Farms falls in its industry

331 Truck farming, field, bedding establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #51 safest of 175 Truck farming, field, bedding employers in California.

James Diedrich Farms (23 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 James Diedrich Farms
James Diedrich Farms (23 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

James Diedrich Farms has fewer employees than the Truck farming, field, bedding plant and 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
2018 7.9 7.9 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Firebaugh

331 Truck farming, 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 · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR West Coast Harvesting Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden R, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peri & Sons Farms of California, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Robert C Hatton Inc 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tri-Fanucchi Farms,LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN2 - 04 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyer Farms 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Valley Vineyards 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR S.H. SMITH FARMS INC 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR TomaTek 629 FTE
CITY-NEAR I.S.A. CONTRACTING SERVICES, INC. 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR R & N PACKING LLC 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Milwaukee Ale House 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Ashton Company 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston (Txcav) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilton Head (Schil) 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tishler Industries Incorporated 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0533 - Yakima, Wa 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0524 - Parsippany, Nj 23 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.