Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · California

Nielsen Farms

Salinas, CA · ~31 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Nielsen Farms runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Nielsen Farms: 9.0 TCR = 200% of Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nielsen Farms safety composite

Nielsen Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 29% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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 8.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−9.9

2017→2023

Nielsen Farms injury rate improved

Nielsen Farms's TCR fell 9.9 from 15.0 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.0 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=13.4 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.0 · 200% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #149/175
  • PHOTO S.H. SMITH FARMS INC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S.H. SMITH FARMS INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nielsen Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nielsen Farms averages 9.0 TCR (200% of the Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Nielsen Farms TCR series: 2017=15 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=5.1 · 2021=13.4 · 2022=6.7 · 2023=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Nielsen Farms falls in its industry

331 Truck farming, field, bedding establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #149 safest of 175 Truck farming, field, bedding employers in California.

Nielsen Farms (31 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nielsen Farms
Nielsen Farms (31 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Nielsen Farms has fewer employees than the Truck farming, field, bedding plant and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2023 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2022 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2021 13.4 5.3 5 0 0
2020 5.1 5.1 1 1 0
2019 8.6 8.6 4 0 0
2017 15.0 9.0 5 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

331 Truck farming, field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 S.H. SMITH FARMS INC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakeside Organic Gardens 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farming 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farming2 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Star Nurseries LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mesquite Cattle Feeders 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR R22 Southwest Pennsylvania, PA 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Walla Walla Foundry Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Up & Out, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR America's Thrift Store #8 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harlan Bakeries - Kitley 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Quick, Inc. (5701-Phoenix-AZ) 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Motion Systems : Blaine 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zacherl Motor Truck Sales, Inc 31 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, 2017. 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.