Spices and spice mix manufacturing · California

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility

Berkeley, CA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Spices and spice mix manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility: 3.3 TCR = 80% of Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility safety composite

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility: 0.0 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility's TCR rose 6.6 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311942 · Berkeley, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 80% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #6/19
  • PHOTO Salt - Newark, CA
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Salt - Newark, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility averages 3.3 TCR (80% of the Spices and spice mix manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility TCR series: 2022=0 · 2024=6.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility falls in its industry

200 Spices and spice mix manufactu establishments

Safer than 53% 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 #6 safest of 19 Spices and spice mix manufactu employers in California.

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility (35 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility
Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility (35 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Oaktown Spice Shop Production Facility has fewer employees than the Spices and spice mix 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
2024 6.6 6.6 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311942 · CA · Berkeley

200 Spices and spice mix manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, 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 Salt - Newark, CA 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shank's Extracts, LLC d.b.a. Universal Ingredients - Shank's 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR iSpicefoods LLC. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rodelle Inc 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR MyMichigan Medical Center West Branch 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Key Polymer, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DyStar Foam Control 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Grove Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE U.S. Insulation 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tucker Door and Trim Albany 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elliott Aviation of Des Moines 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baltimore, MD 35 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.