Farm labor contractors · California

Lb Harvesting Inc.

Thermal, CA · ~252 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lb Harvesting Inc. runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Lb Harvesting Inc.: 8.6 TCR = 191% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lb Harvesting Inc. safety composite

Lb Harvesting Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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)
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.9

2018→2024

Lb Harvesting Inc. injury rate improved

Lb Harvesting Inc.'s TCR fell 4.9 from 7.2 in 2018 to 2.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 19.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.2 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=19.6 · 2022=16.3 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Thermal, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 191% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #524/620
  • PHOTO Velazquez Packing Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~252 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Velazquez Packing Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lb Harvesting Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lb Harvesting Inc. averages 8.6 TCR (191% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Lb Harvesting Inc. TCR series: 2018=7.2 · 2019=3 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=19.6 · 2022=16.3 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=2.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Lb Harvesting Inc. falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #524 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Lb Harvesting Inc. (252 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Lb Harvesting Inc.
Lb Harvesting Inc. (252 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Lb Harvesting Inc. has more 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
2024 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2022 16.3 5.4 9 0 0
2021 19.6 19.6 11 0 0
2020 7.2 7.2 4 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2018 7.2 5.1 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Thermal

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 19 employers in Thermal, 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 Velazquez Packing Inc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shryne Group - Greenfield Organix 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grether Farming Company, Inc 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automated Harvesting LLc 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Village Nurseries Bradshaw Yard 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chrisp Company 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schetter Electric LLC 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coolsys CORP 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR EKSC CORPORATION 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Desert Infinity, Inc. 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spates Fabricators Inc 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR El Espinal FLC 161 FTE
NAT-TCR 1108 - Commack 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1525 - Silverthorne 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 2786 - Seattle Pike Plaza 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Camco Manufacturing Inc 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lafayette Facility 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0076 - Sioux Falls 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0146 - White Bridge 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1103 - Newport News 252 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. 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.