Strawberry farming · California

KG Berry Farms LLC

Santa Maria, CA · ~337 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

KG Berry Farms LLC runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade A.

KG Berry Farms LLC: 2.0 TCR = 44% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

KG Berry Farms LLC safety composite

KG Berry Farms LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

KG Berry Farms LLC: 3.3 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.19× in 2024

KG Berry Farms LLC's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.3 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #29/124
  • PHOTO Camarillo Harvesting…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~337 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Camarillo Harvesting, LLC Salinas (0.0 TCR gap)

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KG Berry Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows KG Berry Farms LLC averages 2.0 TCR (44% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

KG Berry Farms LLC TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=0.3 · 2023=0.3 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 4.5

Where KG Berry Farms LLC falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 77% 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 #29 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

KG Berry Farms LLC (337 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 KG Berry Farms LLC
KG Berry Farms LLC (337 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

KG Berry Farms LLC 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 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2023 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2022 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2020 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2019 1.4 0.7 1 1 0
2018 3.8 0.6 6 0 0
2017 3.3 0.0 4 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 Camarillo Harvesting, LLC Salinas 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liepold Farms 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAC-MAN 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coastline Berry Farms, Inc 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grimmius Cattle Company, Inc. - East Ranch 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Arc Fresno/Madera Counties 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 4393 337 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 D.R. Horton - Crown, LLC - Atlanta East - Augusta 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR StandardAero - Houston 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Diamondback Firearms 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Interstate Foam & Supply, Inc. Plant 1 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Police Department 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. Folino Construction, Inc. 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 53035 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE M&M Nfw 337 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, 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.