Strawberry farming · California

Kem Farms, Inc

Santa Maria, CA · ~571 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kem Farms, Inc runs at 23% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Kem Farms, Inc: 1.0 TCR = 23% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kem Farms, Inc safety composite

Kem Farms, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

−1.2

2017→2024

Kem Farms, Inc injury rate improved

Kem Farms, Inc's TCR fell 1.2 from 2.7 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.7 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Santa Maria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 23% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #16/124
  • PHOTO Berry Mist Farms, LP
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~571 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berry Mist Farms, LP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kem Farms, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kem Farms, Inc averages 1.0 TCR (23% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Kem Farms, Inc TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Kem Farms, Inc falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Kem Farms, Inc (571 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kem Farms, Inc
Kem Farms, Inc (571 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Kem Farms, Inc has more employees than the Strawberry farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 1.4 1.4 6 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.7 0.2 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.0 2.0 5 0 0
2019 0.5 0.5 2 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Santa Maria

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 Berry Mist Farms, LP 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Office 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Farms 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Willow Farms 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Child & Youth Development, Child Resource Services, Expanded Learning Program, Youth and Family Serv 571 FTE
STATE-SIZE Analog Devices Inc. Santa Clara Campus 571 FTE
STATE-SIZE host Healthcare 571 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stellar Staffing Solutions LLC 572 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR abctree 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Chaska 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Office and Warehouse Division 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Danville-Pittsylvania Community Services 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE VC Summer Station - Unit 1 571 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matheny Medical and Educational Center 571 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southcoast Business Center 571 FTE
NAT-SIZE Immucor Norcross 571 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, 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.