Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · California

Lajes Farms Inc

Riverdale, CA · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lajes Farms Inc runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Lajes Farms Inc: 7.0 TCR = 156% of Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lajes Farms Inc safety composite

Lajes Farms Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−7.8

2017→2018

Lajes Farms Inc injury rate improved

Lajes Farms Inc's TCR fell 7.8 from 10.9 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.9 · 2018=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Riverdale, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 156% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #111/175
  • PHOTO Huntington Farms
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Huntington Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lajes Farms Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lajes Farms Inc averages 7.0 TCR (156% of the Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Lajes Farms Inc TCR series: 2017=10.9 · 2018=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Lajes Farms Inc falls in its industry

331 Truck farming, field, bedding establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #111 safest of 175 Truck farming, field, bedding employers in California.

Lajes Farms Inc (49 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lajes Farms Inc
Lajes Farms Inc (49 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Lajes Farms Inc has fewer employees than the Truck farming, field, bedding plant and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2018 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2017 10.9 6.2 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Riverdale

331 Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 16 employers in Riverdale, 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 Huntington Farms 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR T&A - Salinas - Farm 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Mushrooms 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Akea Farms, Inc. 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunview Shandon 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rawah-Napa County 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Farms 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trinitas Farming 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jacobo Farm Services 645 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Service L.L.C. 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maddox Farms (Burrel Location) 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maddox Dairy 73 FTE
NAT-TCR Hartselle Center (Alhar) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0025 - Louisville East, Ky 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR McKee Foods Corporation-AZ 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR East Jordan Plastics Beaverton Facility 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holland - DS 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anderson (Inand) 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powdersize, LLC 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Iberia (Lanib) 49 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: 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.