Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing · California

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC

Arvin, CA · ~363 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC: 2.8 TCR = 62% of Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC safety composite

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC: 2.4 → 3.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.28× in 2024

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC's TCR rose 0.8 from 2.4 in 2023 to 3.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Arvin, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #59/236
  • PHOTO Avon Heights Mushroo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~363 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avon Heights Mushrooms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kern Ridge Growers, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kern Ridge Growers, LLC averages 2.8 TCR (62% of the Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC TCR series: 2023=2.4 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Kern Ridge Growers, LLC falls in its industry

666 Vegetable sorting, grading, an establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 236 Vegetable sorting, grading, an employers in California.

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC (363 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kern Ridge Growers, LLC
Kern Ridge Growers, LLC (363 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Kern Ridge Growers, LLC has more employees than the Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 3.2 0.8 12 0 0
2023 2.4 0.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Arvin

666 Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 41 employers in Arvin, 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 Avon Heights Mushrooms, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hastings, NE 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Co Packing 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2490_15490 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE MOC 2 - Public Utilities 363 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGB Construction inc 363 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Cascade, Inc 363 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlsbad ATS 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore Labor Inc. 5,865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malaga Facility 1,391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tasteful Selections, LLC 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR MALAGA CUT/SNACK 570 FTE
NAT-TCR FC: houston 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeland Electric Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Douglas N Higgins Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Freeport Transport Industries, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Stow Company Holland Inc 363 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mnmtp - Minneapolis - St Paul Airport 363 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glad Mfg 363 FTE
NAT-SIZE Memorial Hospital 363 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.