Farm labor contractors · California

Mesa Harvesting Company

Santa Maria, CA · ~172 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mesa Harvesting Company runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Mesa Harvesting Company: 4.0 TCR = 90% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mesa Harvesting Company safety composite

Mesa Harvesting Company scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2017→2023

Mesa Harvesting Company injury rate improved

Mesa Harvesting Company's TCR fell 5.3 from 5.3 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=7.0 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Santa Maria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #293/620
  • PHOTO Herrema Dairy LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Herrema Dairy LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mesa Harvesting Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mesa Harvesting Company averages 4.0 TCR (90% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Mesa Harvesting Company TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=6 · 2019=7 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Mesa Harvesting Company falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #293 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Mesa Harvesting Company (172 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Mesa Harvesting Company
Mesa Harvesting Company (172 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Mesa Harvesting Company has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.8 2.4 5 1 0
2020 3.1 3.1 7 0 0
2019 7.0 6.5 13 1 0
2018 6.0 5.5 12 0 0
2017 5.3 4.6 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Santa Maria

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 Herrema Dairy LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tamiami Citrus, LLC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Manufacturing - Zabala Farm 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JAVIER JACOBO 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scarborough Farms 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berries 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sierra Pacific Industries Forestry 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Coast Const/Field Serv - Bld: 6592 - 01 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Healdton 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Mansion at Waterford 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Placid #180 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Crothall Laundry Services - Phoenix 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE EverStaff - Corporate 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harmon Medical and Rehabilitation Hospital 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaiser Aluminum Alexco, LLC 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barrington Orthopedics SCH 172 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.