Compost manufacturing · California

Keith Day Company Inc

Salinas, CA · ~108 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Keith Day Company Inc runs at 232% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Compost manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Keith Day Company Inc: 7.7 TCR = 232% of Compost manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Keith Day Company Inc safety composite

Keith Day Company Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−9.3

2018→2024

Keith Day Company Inc injury rate improved

Keith Day Company Inc's TCR fell 9.3 from 11.8 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=11.8 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 232% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO The Valley Fertilize…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~108 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Valley Fertilizer & Chemical Co., Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Keith Day Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Keith Day Company Inc averages 7.7 TCR (232% of the Compost manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Keith Day Company Inc TCR series: 2018=11.8 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=7.4 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Keith Day Company Inc falls in its industry

163 Compost manufacturing establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Compost manufacturing employers in California.

Keith Day Company Inc (108 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Keith Day Company Inc
Keith Day Company Inc (108 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Keith Day Company Inc has more employees than the Compost manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 4 0 0
2022 7.4 7.4 8 0 0
2021 9.9 6.3 11 0 0
2020 7.3 4.5 8 0 0
2019 11.3 6.1 10 1 0
2018 11.8 5.9 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · CA · Salinas

163 Compost manufacturing 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 The Valley Fertilizer & Chemical Co., Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silver Creek Materials, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ohio Mulch Supply 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tarheel Bark 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jazmine Ag Labor Services, Inc 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harris Farms Inc 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Cattle Feeders, LLC 108 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rainbow Farms 108 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 Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Northeast Region 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kimberton Whole Foods Ottsville 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Waters of Springfield 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR BJE Reality 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ccb 1 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kre-Bsl Husky Milford Operations LLC 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vancrest New Carlisle 108 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&H Trucking, Inc. 108 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.