Nursery stock growing · California

King City Transplanting

King City, CA · ~44 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

King City Transplanting runs at 123% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade D.

King City Transplanting: 5.5 TCR = 123% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

King City Transplanting safety composite

King City Transplanting scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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)
D 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−11.6

2016→2024

King City Transplanting injury rate improved

King City Transplanting's TCR fell 11.6 from 19.5 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 19.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.5 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · King City, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 123% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #66/120
  • PHOTO Blackstone Dilworth
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blackstone Dilworth (0.0 TCR gap)

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King City Transplanting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows King City Transplanting averages 5.5 TCR (123% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

King City Transplanting TCR series: 2016=19.5 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=1.8 · 2019=1.6 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=2.2 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 4.5

Where King City Transplanting falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

King City Transplanting (44 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate King City Transplanting
King City Transplanting (44 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

King City Transplanting has fewer employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 7.9 7.9 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2021 2.2 2.2 0 1 0
2020 5.3 3.5 3 0 0
2019 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2018 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2017 8.7 5.2 5 0 0
2016 19.5 6.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · King City

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in King City, 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 Blackstone Dilworth 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LCN 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wayside Nurseries Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plug Connection - Lodi 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Firebaugh 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boutonnet Farms 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Coast Vineyards 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE FESTIVAL FARMS 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGP FARM LABOR LLC 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rio Farms 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farming 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvest 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Johnny Rockets #309 MGM 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 08 Saginaw 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bingaman & Son Lumber, Clarendon Division 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Tobias Wildlife Park 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Custom Cast Stone, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Towers 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Timberlake Construction Co. Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Hope Power Company 44 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, 2016. 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.