Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production · California

Mininger Farms

Merced, CA · ~317 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mininger Farms runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade D.

Mininger Farms: 7.6 TCR = 169% of Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mininger Farms safety composite

Mininger Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Mininger Farms: 5.6 → 12.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2022

Mininger Farms's TCR rose 7.2 from 5.6 in 2020 to 12.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #22/24
  • PHOTO Black Gold Farms MOC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~317 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Black Gold Farms MOC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mininger Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mininger Farms averages 7.6 TCR (169% of the Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

Mininger Farms TCR series: 2020=5.6 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=12.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Mininger Farms falls in its industry

153 Sweet potato farming, field an establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 24 Sweet potato farming, field an employers in California.

Mininger Farms (317 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Mininger Farms
Mininger Farms (317 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Mininger Farms has more employees than the Sweet potato farming, field and seed pot median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2022 12.9 5.2 15 0 0
2021 4.3 3.0 7 0 0
2020 5.6 5.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · CA · Merced

153 Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, 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 Black Gold Farms MOC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms Camden 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walther Farms NM 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Establishment 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service West Inc. 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mojave 317 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cambro Skylab 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR PSSI - 2800 Tyson Foods - Monroe 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-PD-CAK-AKRON-CANTON-CAK-PDMT 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0030-0030-01010 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0017-0017-01487 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Andrews Federal Bus Facility 317 FTE
NAT-SIZE Select Express & Logistics 317 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norcold Sidney 317 FTE
NAT-SIZE 589 Walmart Inc 317 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.