Fruit and tree nut combination farming · California

M&T Chico Ranch

Chico, CA · ~57 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

M&T Chico Ranch runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruit and tree nut combination farming workplace, earning a grade D.

M&T Chico Ranch: 6.4 TCR = 142% of Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

M&T Chico Ranch safety composite

M&T Chico Ranch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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

−2.1

2017→2023

M&T Chico Ranch injury rate improved

M&T Chico Ranch's TCR fell 2.1 from 7.5 in 2017 to 5.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.5 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=4.0 · 2023=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111336 · Chico, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 142% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #28/48
  • PHOTO Peters Fruit Farms I…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Peters Fruit Farms Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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M&T Chico Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows M&T Chico Ranch averages 6.4 TCR (142% of the Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS benchmark).

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

M&T Chico Ranch TCR series: 2017=7.5 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=5.9 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=4 · 2023=5.4 · BLS 4.5

Where M&T Chico Ranch falls in its industry

65 Fruit and tree nut combination establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 48 Fruit and tree nut combination employers in California.

M&T Chico Ranch (57 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate M&T Chico Ranch
M&T Chico Ranch (57 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0

M&T Chico Ranch has fewer employees than the Fruit and tree nut combination farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 5.4 1.8 3 0 0
2022 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2021 4.8 0.0 2 1 0
2020 6.8 3.4 3 1 0
2019 5.9 1.5 4 0 0
2018 10.5 1.3 8 0 0
2017 7.5 1.3 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111336 · CA · Chico

65 Fruit and tree nut combination farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, 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 Peters Fruit Farms Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doornink Fruit Ranch, Inc 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apricot Lane Farms 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TERRA LINDA FARMS 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowles Farming Company 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanc Vineyards, LLC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE MI RANCHITO FARMING INC 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmland Management Services 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Harbor Health Services, Inc. HCHC-H 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cascade Pattern 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Plant, Rm,Exc,Trk,Admin 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR custom glass solutions, Fostoria 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fowler Health Care Center 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winfield United - Vincent 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Paducah - Parks and Recreation 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Finisar Corp Horsham 57 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.