Chili pepper or powder manufacturing · California

Mojave Foods

Commerce, CA · ~255 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mojave Foods runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chili pepper or powder manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Mojave Foods: 0.8 TCR = 20% of Chili pepper or powder manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mojave Foods safety composite

Mojave Foods scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−0.8

2019→2020

Mojave Foods injury rate improved

Mojave Foods's TCR fell 0.8 from 1.2 in 2019 to 0.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.2 · 2020=0.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Commerce, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #2/19
  • PHOTO NFI (formerly AUR)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~255 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NFI (formerly AUR) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mojave Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mojave Foods averages 0.8 TCR (20% of the Chili pepper or powder manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Mojave Foods TCR series: 2019=1.2 · 2020=0.4 · BLS 4.1

Where Mojave Foods falls in its industry

200 Chili pepper or powder manufac establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 19 Chili pepper or powder manufac employers in California.

Mojave Foods (255 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mojave Foods
Mojave Foods (255 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Mojave Foods has more employees than the Chili pepper or powder manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2019 1.2 0.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · CA · Commerce

200 Chili pepper or powder manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 163 employers in Commerce, 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 NFI (formerly AUR) 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&G Foods Inc. Ankeny Division 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nestle LJ Minor 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry Inc. Lakeland Florida 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-West Valley 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE 29050002-4148 AXS GROUP LOS ANGELES HQ 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Venture Foods 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE T-Y Nursery, Inc. 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ferguson Complex 2,769 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 587 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PCAM, LLC 1,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLA3 771 FTE
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : LIT - Little Rock 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : BIS - Bismarck 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sessions Company, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashland Service Center 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc. - Auburn, NY 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Plant & Corporate 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toledo Tool and Die Company 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanford Contractors, Inc. 255 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. 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.