Grape farming without making wine · California

Middleridge Vineyards

Hopland, CA · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Middleridge Vineyards runs at 276% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grape farming without making wine workplace, earning a grade F.

Middleridge Vineyards: 12.4 TCR = 276% of Grape farming without making wine BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Middleridge Vineyards safety composite

Middleridge Vineyards scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Middleridge Vineyards: 10.2 → 18.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 18.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2020

Middleridge Vineyards's TCR rose 8.8 from 10.2 in 2017 to 18.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111332 · Hopland, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 276% of ind

  • DART 18.9 DART
  • RANK #141/151
  • PHOTO Four Star Management…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Four Star Management LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Middleridge Vineyards in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Middleridge Vineyards averages 12.4 TCR (276% of the Grape farming without making wine BLS benchmark).

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

Middleridge Vineyards TCR series: 2017=10.2 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=18.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Middleridge Vineyards falls in its industry

162 Grape farming without making w establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #141 safest of 151 Grape farming without making w employers in California.

Middleridge Vineyards (21 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Middleridge Vineyards
Middleridge Vineyards (21 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Middleridge Vineyards has fewer employees than the Grape farming without making wine median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2020 18.9 18.9 0 4 0
2019 8.1 8.1 2 0 0
2017 10.2 10.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111332 · CA · Hopland

162 Grape farming without making wine employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 9 employers in Hopland, 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 Four Star Management LLC 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR KKG Equipment Company, LLC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Stone 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nord Coast Vineyard Service, Inc dba Nord Vineyard Services 12.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fetzer Vineyards - Hopland Winery 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Soto Bros Farm Labor Contractor Inc 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterfowl Winery 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sb vineyards Management Inc 52 FTE
NAT-TCR Hoffman Manufacturing Corp 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Oskaloosa Manufacturing Inc 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Town of Canton 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Core-Mark Arizona Distribution Center 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cornerstone Hospital Houston -Clear Lake 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marinemax Northeast, LLC-Ny5 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marinemax Northeast, LLC-Im1 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bayside Comfort Inc 21 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.