Food packaging machinery manufacturing · California

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas

Salinas, CA · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Food packaging machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Food packaging machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas safety composite

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas: 2.1 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas's TCR rose 1.0 from 2.1 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333993 · Salinas, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO E-PAK Machinery
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: E-PAK Machinery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Latitude 36 Foods Salinas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Latitude 36 Foods Salinas averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the Food packaging machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas TCR series: 2023=2.1 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Latitude 36 Foods Salinas falls in its industry

269 Food packaging machinery manuf establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Food packaging machinery manuf employers in California.

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas (46 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Latitude 36 Foods Salinas
Latitude 36 Foods Salinas (46 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Latitude 36 Foods Salinas has fewer employees than the Food packaging machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2024 3.1 2.5 5 0 0
2023 2.1 0.5 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333993 · CA · Salinas

269 Food packaging machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 E-PAK Machinery 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polyonics 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RA Pearson Company 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AutoPak Engineering Corporation 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matteoli Brothers 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMR Farms-San Miguel 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Berry Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitigliano Farm Services, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Raker-Roberta's Young Plants 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rome Hospitality Group, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Holmes Lumber 160 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Unilock Michigan INC 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE H.W. Herrell Distributing Company 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mens Residential Center 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avinext 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brooklyn NY 46 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.