Farm labor contractors · California

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley

Royal Oaks, CA · ~15 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley runs at 321% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley: 14.4 TCR = 321% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley safety composite

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley: 0.0 → 28.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 28.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2020

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley's TCR rose 28.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 28.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Royal Oaks, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 321% of ind

  • DART 14.4 DART
  • RANK #592/620
  • PHOTO Farm Hands Leasing
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farm Hands Leasing (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley averages 14.4 TCR (321% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=28.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #592 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley (15 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley
Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley (15 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Kumbaya Farms - Pajaro Valley has fewer employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2020 28.9 14.4 4 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Royal Oaks

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in Royal Oaks, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Farm Hands Leasing 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dynapac Harvesting, Inc. (CA) 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mad Seed Plant 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mendoza Farm Labor Contracting, Inc. 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE JK FARMS 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE workers 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pajaro Valley 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE MMF-Hemet 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Strawberry Harvest 711 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms, LLC. 667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vasvision Berry Farms, LLC 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Falcon Trading Company, Inc. 219 FTE
NAT-TCR Birmingham DSD 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Claremont Senior Living 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Domestic 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hill & Company LTD 14.4 TCR

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: 2020, 2019. 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.