Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing · California

Malaga Cut/Snack

Arvin, CA · ~570 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Malaga Cut/Snack runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade D.

Malaga Cut/Snack: 8.5 TCR = 190% of Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Malaga Cut/Snack safety composite

Malaga Cut/Snack scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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

8/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 0% 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

Malaga Cut/Snack: 8.3 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2021

Malaga Cut/Snack's TCR rose 1.0 from 8.3 in 2018 to 9.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Arvin, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.5 · 190% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #182/236
  • PHOTO PORTERVILLE CITRUS, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 176 inj
  • SIZE ~570 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PORTERVILLE CITRUS, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Malaga Cut/Snack in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Malaga Cut/Snack averages 8.5 TCR (190% of the Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Malaga Cut/Snack TCR series: 2018=8.3 · 2019=8 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=9.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Malaga Cut/Snack falls in its industry

666 Vegetable sorting, grading, an establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #182 safest of 236 Vegetable sorting, grading, an employers in California.

Malaga Cut/Snack (570 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Malaga Cut/Snack
Malaga Cut/Snack (570 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Malaga Cut/Snack 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
2021 9.4 7.5 44 1 1
2020 8.5 5.8 41 7 1
2019 8.0 6.7 42 0 0
2018 8.3 7.0 49 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Arvin

666 Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 41 employers in Arvin, 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 PORTERVILLE CITRUS, INC. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andersen and Sons Shelling 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uni-Kool Yuma 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR AB-Jacklin Seed-Othello 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Redwood Empire Vineyard Management 570 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 17 570 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 15 570 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 16 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sycamore Labor Inc. 5,865 FTE
CITY-NEAR Malaga Facility 1,391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tasteful Selections, LLC 798 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSS Farms - Tasteful Selections 499 FTE
NAT-TCR Penn Med New Patient Pavilion 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Reno Iron Works 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wahiawa 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR crest haven care centre 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE AtriCure HQ & Field-Based 570 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wegmans Alberta Dr 082 570 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mondelez 570 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bandit Industries, Inc. 570 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: 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.