Farm labor contractors · California

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility

Salinas, CA · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility: 5.7 TCR = 127% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility safety composite

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility: 0.9 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.84× in 2023

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility's TCR rose 9.6 from 0.9 in 2022 to 10.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 127% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #401/620
  • PHOTO Elkhorn Packing CO LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elkhorn Packing CO LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lowell Farms - Spence Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lowell Farms - Spence Facility averages 5.7 TCR (127% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility TCR series: 2022=0.9 · 2023=10.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Lowell Farms - Spence Facility falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #401 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility (90 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Lowell Farms - Spence Facility
Lowell Farms - Spence Facility (90 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Lowell Farms - Spence Facility has fewer 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
2023 10.6 10.6 5 0 0
2022 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Salinas

836 Farm labor contractors 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 Elkhorn Packing CO LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rancho Laguna Farms LLC 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&C Farms LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silvia Perez Torres 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Davis West Research Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland America Flowers, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hettinga - California 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & R Contracting 90 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 CUSD#1 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Payne|Bouchier Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ozark Ready Mix Company, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stormy Point Village 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Landmark of Bardstown 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Acres Landscape, Inc 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boyce Excavating, Inc. 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silgan Containers Hoopeston 90 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: 2023, 2022. 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.