Cold storage warehousing · California

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA

Salinas, CA · ~63 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade D.

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA: 7.8 TCR = 135% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA safety composite

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA: 2.2 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2020

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.2 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 135% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #105/125
  • PHOTO Home Market Foods - …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Home Market Foods - Norton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA averages 7.8 TCR (135% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2018=14.5 · 2019=10.4 · 2020=4.3 · BLS 5.8

Where Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #105 safest of 125 Cold storage warehousing employers in California.

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA (63 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA
Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA (63 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Nunes Cooling Inc - Salinas, CA has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 4.3 2.1 2 0 0
2019 10.4 10.4 5 0 0
2018 14.5 12.4 7 0 0
2017 2.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · CA · Salinas

1,039 Cold storage warehousing 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 Home Market Foods - Norton 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nor-Am Cold Storage - Saint Joseph C 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seafrigo Coldstorage Newark Inc 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Londonderry Freezer Warehouse 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE VF - Lodi 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Ventures, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goossen Farms Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGW, LLC 63 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 Paragon Ready Mix Inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Norwegian American Hospital Main 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BMC-Devils Lake 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brill Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Purvis Brothers, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Constructors, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cherokee-US-Production 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aeon PEC 63 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, 2018, 2017. 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.