Rhubarb farming, field and seed production · California

Lakeside Organic Gardens

Watsonville, CA · ~357 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lakeside Organic Gardens runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Rhubarb farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Lakeside Organic Gardens: 8.9 TCR = 199% of Rhubarb farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakeside Organic Gardens safety composite

Lakeside Organic Gardens scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−3.1

2018→2024

Lakeside Organic Gardens injury rate improved

Lakeside Organic Gardens's TCR fell 3.1 from 14.1 in 2018 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=14.1 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 199% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #147/175
  • PHOTO Farming2
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 157 inj
  • SIZE ~357 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farming2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lakeside Organic Gardens in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lakeside Organic Gardens averages 8.9 TCR (199% of the Rhubarb farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Lakeside Organic Gardens TCR series: 2018=14.1 · 2020=4.6 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=9.7 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Lakeside Organic Gardens falls in its industry

331 Rhubarb farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #147 safest of 175 Rhubarb farming, field and see employers in California.

Lakeside Organic Gardens (357 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 Lakeside Organic Gardens
Lakeside Organic Gardens (357 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Lakeside Organic Gardens has more employees than the Rhubarb farming, field and seed producti 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
2024 11.1 6.6 34 3 0
2023 9.7 6.3 26 2 0
2022 5.4 4.1 17 0 0
2021 8.9 7.6 27 1 0
2020 4.6 3.2 17 0 0
2018 14.1 10.2 36 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Watsonville

331 Rhubarb farming, field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 Farming2 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.H. SMITH FARMS INC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nielsen Farms 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farming 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cornerstone Packing & Cooling 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dynasty Farm Labor Contracting 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacifica Personnel, inc. 357 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Perla Verde Inc 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR Rusk Rehabilitation Hospital 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Unity Health Specialty Care 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Comptec Inc 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR VNA of Boston 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Warn Industries 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITASCA 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Berlin - 16250 W Glendale Drive 357 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1833 - Savage 357 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, 2018. 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.