Grape farming without making wine · California

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA

Lodi, CA · ~109 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grape farming without making wine workplace, earning a grade C.

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA: 5.0 TCR = 111% of Grape farming without making wine BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA safety composite

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.4 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%).

Rising injury rate

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA: 4.4 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.48× in 2024

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA's TCR rose 1.2 from 4.4 in 2023 to 5.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111332 · Lodi, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.0 · 111% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #85/151
  • PHOTO Sunview Shandon
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunview Shandon (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA averages 5.0 TCR (111% of the Grape farming without making wine BLS benchmark).

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

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA TCR series: 2023=4.4 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 4.5

Where John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA falls in its industry

162 Grape farming without making w establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 151 Grape farming without making w employers in California.

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA (109 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA
John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA (109 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.6

John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA has more employees than the Grape farming without making wine median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 5.6 2.4 7 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111332 · CA · Lodi

162 Grape farming without making wine employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 140 employers in Lodi, 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 Sunview Shandon 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bokisch Vineyard Management 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sun Pacific Farming Cooperative, Inc | Grapes Delano 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VPS, Inc 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE BRAVANTE FARM MANAGEMENT 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE G4 Farm Labor, Inc. 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elvira Sandoval 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgar Carvajal 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perez Farming Services Inc. 1,145 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9292-AHLM001 - HOSPITAL 1,030 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-223 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 592 890 FTE
NAT-TCR Mississippi Valley Orchard Services 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Weller Auto Parts Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston,TX - 426 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Horizon Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE USA Philadelphia 6615 Norwitch Dr 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE RHI Construction INC 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Healthcare Center at Patriot Heights 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tucson University Park Hotel 109 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. 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.