Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing · California

Malaga Shipping

Arvin, CA · ~169 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Malaga Shipping runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade F.

Malaga Shipping: 13.5 TCR = 300% of Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Malaga Shipping safety composite

Malaga Shipping scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 7% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

4/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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 Shipping: 7.0 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 23.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2021

Malaga Shipping's TCR rose 3.0 from 7.0 in 2018 to 10.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 23.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.5 · 300% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #224/236
  • PHOTO Braden Hulling
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Braden Hulling (0.1 TCR gap)

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Malaga Shipping in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Malaga Shipping averages 13.5 TCR (300% 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 Shipping TCR series: 2018=7 · 2019=13.7 · 2020=23.3 · 2021=10 · BLS 4.5

Where Malaga Shipping falls in its industry

666 Vegetable sorting, grading, an establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #224 safest of 236 Vegetable sorting, grading, an employers in California.

Malaga Shipping (169 employees, TCR 13.5) 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 Shipping
Malaga Shipping (169 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Malaga Shipping 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 10.0 7.8 14 0 0
2020 23.3 12.3 12 26 1
2019 13.7 10.7 23 0 0
2018 7.0 5.8 12 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 Braden Hulling 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hughson Nut, Inc - Livingston Facility 13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Packing House/Office 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adam Gutierrez 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & C LABOR SERVICES INC 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ensign Well Services - California 169 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 MALAGA CUT/SNACK 570 FTE
NAT-TCR Taylor Heating Inc. 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambridge Place Nursing Home 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1924 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ritter Production Farms, Inc. 13.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Scantron - Eagan 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABQ - Ground Ops 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACH Food Companies, Inc. 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota Office 169 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.