Strawberry farming · California

Le - 03

Ballico, CA · ~196 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Le - 03 runs at 261% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Le - 03: 11.7 TCR = 261% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Le - 03 safety composite

Le - 03 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Le - 03: 9.0 → 14.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

Le - 03's TCR rose 5.5 from 9.0 in 2023 to 14.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Ballico, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 261% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #116/124
  • PHOTO Sorrento Berry Farms…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Oxnard (0.2 TCR gap)

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Le - 03 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Le - 03 averages 11.7 TCR (261% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Le - 03 TCR series: 2023=9 · 2024=14.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Le - 03 falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #116 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Le - 03 (196 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Le - 03
Le - 03 (196 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Le - 03 has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 14.5 10.2 30 0 0
2023 9.0 4.5 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Ballico

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in Ballico, 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 Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Oxnard 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mike Etchandy Farms, INC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeBernardi Bros 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rincon Pacific, LLC 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE CITY OF BELL 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 980724 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apex Construction Group, Inc. - Loomis 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4795-AA-SAN-SAN DIEGO-SAN-TRML 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballico 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Ranch 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Ranch Inc. - Turlock Rd. 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR farm management inc 104 FTE
NAT-TCR HTC Garland 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Trego/Dugan Aviation Inc Cvg 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Williamsport AmbulanceServCorp 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Feriwood 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brooklyn Park 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Des Moines Branch 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE The YGS Group 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside 196 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.