Farm labor contractors · California

Jorge Castro Farms

Salinas, CA · ~186 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jorge Castro Farms runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Jorge Castro Farms: 6.5 TCR = 145% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jorge Castro Farms safety composite

Jorge Castro Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Jorge Castro Farms: 4.3 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2019

Jorge Castro Farms's TCR rose 4.5 from 4.3 in 2017 to 8.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 145% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #440/620
  • PHOTO Javier Ponce Nevarez
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Javier Ponce Nevarez (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jorge Castro Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jorge Castro Farms averages 6.5 TCR (145% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Jorge Castro Farms TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2019=8.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Jorge Castro Farms falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #440 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Jorge Castro Farms (186 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Jorge Castro Farms
Jorge Castro Farms (186 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Jorge Castro Farms has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 8.8 3.8 15 1 0
2017 4.3 3.0 7 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Salinas

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 Javier Ponce Nevarez 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunrise Farm Labor, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Castaneda & Sons, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Badass Farming 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PRIMA NOCE PACKING, INC. 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Redlands Nevada Bldg 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Coast Sales and Service, Inc. 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service Champions - Birch 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Nevada Southern Detention 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kw International(Ga_ellenwood) 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Andersen Consolidation Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Court Alternatives - Juvenile Detention 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chicago Riverfront 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Penn Stainless Products, Inc. Quakertown 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buffalo (HR) 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Standard Aero 186 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: 2019, 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.