Prepared foods, frozen (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers · California

National Custom Packing

Castroville, CA · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National Custom Packing runs at 355% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Prepared foods, frozen (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

National Custom Packing: 7.8 TCR = 355% of Prepared foods, frozen (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Custom Packing safety composite

National Custom Packing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Rising injury rate

National Custom Packing: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

National Custom Packing's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424420 · Castroville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 355% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #6/17
  • PHOTO MI-WYOMI06-Wyoming -…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MI-WYOMI06-Wyoming - Fleet (0.0 TCR gap)

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National Custom Packing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Custom Packing averages 7.8 TCR (355% of the Prepared foods, frozen (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

National Custom Packing TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=12.3 · 2019=13.7 · 2020=8.4 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 2.2

Where National Custom Packing falls in its industry

134 Prepared foods, frozen (except establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 17 Prepared foods, frozen (except employers in California.

National Custom Packing (48 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate National Custom Packing
National Custom Packing (48 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 7.4

National Custom Packing has fewer employees than the Prepared foods, frozen (except dairy pro median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.4. 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
2024 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2020 8.4 6.3 4 0 0
2019 13.7 11.4 6 0 0
2018 12.3 6.1 6 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424420 · CA · Castroville

134 Prepared foods, frozen (except dairy products), merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 30 employers in Castroville, 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 MI-WYOMI06-Wyoming - Fleet 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MI-GAYLO02-Gaylord - MI - Trans 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR S.J. Distributors LLC-Gilroy Warehouse 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lower Valley Processing, Inc. 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE ARVIN PRODUCTION & ADMIN 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rava Business Park 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guerrero Transportation & Contracting Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE VPS, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR D&J Packing LLC PO Box 130 Castroville Ca 95012 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Mist Farms-Castroville 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Del Llano Farms 95 FTE
NAT-TCR Utah Pacific bridge & Steel LTD 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Macon Office 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillsborough Township Police Department 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hendry Regional Medical Center 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bob's Rentals Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Crown Bottling Co. of Winchester, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Chandler Regional 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paul J Rach Inc. 48 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: 2024, 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.