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

Jk Farms

Arbuckle, CA · ~15 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jk Farms runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far 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 F.

Jk Farms: 10.1 TCR = 223% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jk Farms safety composite

Jk Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Jk Farms: 4.7 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 20.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2024

Jk Farms's TCR rose 6.8 from 4.7 in 2020 to 11.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 20.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 223% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #156/175
  • PHOTO Hardee Farm
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hardee Farm (0.1 TCR gap)

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Jk Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jk Farms averages 10.1 TCR (223% 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

Jk Farms TCR series: 2020=4.7 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=9.5 · 2023=20.1 · 2024=11.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Jk Farms falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #156 safest of 175 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in California.

Jk Farms (15 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 Jk Farms
Jk Farms (15 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Jk Farms has fewer 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 11.4 11.4 3 0 0
2023 20.1 16.1 5 0 0
2022 9.5 4.8 2 0 0
2021 4.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Arbuckle

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 · 20 employers in Arbuckle, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Hardee Farm 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFFF-Oxnard 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HM Clause - Dixon Research Station 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE workers 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pajaro Valley 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE MMF-Hemet 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Escondido Farm 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR T & P Farms, LP 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alsco Geyer Irrigation, Inc. 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arbuckle Rice Mill 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sun Valley Rice, LLC 112 FTE
NAT-TCR Johnston Boiler Company 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2493 - Winder 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR autumn care of madison 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1007 - Laurel 10.1 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.