Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing · California
Live Oak Farms
Le Grand, CA · ~315 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 7.4
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Live Oak Farms runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade D.
Live Oak Farms: 7.4 TCR = 164% of Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Live Oak Farms safety composite
Live Oak Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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).
30/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 7.39 per 100 workers
Safer than 19% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 3.67 per 100 workers
Safer than 28% 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
Live Oak Farms: 6.1 → 7.3 TCR
Peak year 2020 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024
Live Oak Farms's TCR rose 1.2 from 6.1 in 2017 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 115114 · Le Grand, CA ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 164% of ind
- DART 3.7 DART
- RANK #161/236
- PHOTO L&M Warehouse & Pack…
- BOOK 8y book
- INJ 85 inj
- SIZE ~315 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: L&M Warehouse & Packing of South Florida, LLC-Labelle (0.0 TCR gap)
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Live Oak Farms in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Live Oak Farms
7.4 TCR
- L&M Warehouse
L&M Warehouse & Packing of South Florida, LLC-Labelle
7.4 TCR
- Harris Woolf A
Harris Woolf Almonds Coalinga
7.4 TCR
- Duckwall-Poole
Duckwall-Pooley Fruit Co.
7.4 TCR
- Cecelia Packin
Cecelia Packing Corp
7.3 TCR
What this shows Live Oak Farms averages 7.4 TCR (164% of the Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).
Live Oak Farms TCR series: 2017=6.1 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=9.4 · 2021=7.2 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 4.5
Where Live Oak Farms falls in its industry
666 Vegetable sorting, grading, an establishmentsSafer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.
Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #161 safest of 236 Vegetable sorting, grading, an employers in California.
Live Oak Farms has more employees than the Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 | 7.3 | 3.7 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4.1 | 2.7 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 8.2 | 6.6 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 7.2 | 5.2 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 9.4 | 5.7 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 7.4 | 5.4 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 9.3 | 6.2 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
| 2017 | 6.1 | 4.8 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
115114 · CA · Le Grand
666 Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 5 employers in Le Grand, 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 | L&M Warehouse & Packing of South Florida, LLC-Labelle | 7.4 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Harris Woolf Almonds Coalinga | 7.4 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Duckwall-Pooley Fruit Co. | 7.4 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Cecelia Packing Corp | 7.3 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | M&J Farm Labor Contractor, Inc | 315 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | California Department of Transportation Facility 313 | 315 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | California Department of Transportation Facility 308 | 315 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | California Department of Transportation Facility 314 | 315 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | J Marchini Farms | 421 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | MINTURN NUT CO INC | 161 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Grand View Dairy | 27 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Double G Farms, L.P. | 9 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Suspa, Inc. | 7.4 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Caregivers of Pleasant Grove, Inc | 7.4 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Herbruck's of Pennsylvania, LLC | 7.4 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Kalkaska County Road Commission | 7.4 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Trade Port 2 | 315 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC - 448 | 315 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Derby Health & Rehab | 315 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | PA - Carlisle Multi-Client | 315 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.