Cut flower growing · California

Ocean Breeze International

Carpinteria, CA · ~92 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ocean Breeze International runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cut flower growing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ocean Breeze International: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Cut flower growing BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ocean Breeze International safety composite

Ocean Breeze International scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Ocean Breeze International: 1.6 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Ocean Breeze International's TCR rose 7.4 from 1.6 in 2017 to 8.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Carpinteria, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #10/33
  • PHOTO Masterpiece Flower C…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ocean Breeze International in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ocean Breeze International averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Cut flower growing BLS benchmark).

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

Ocean Breeze International TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=4.7 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=4.1 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Ocean Breeze International falls in its industry

166 Cut flower growing establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #10 safest of 33 Cut flower growing employers in California.

Ocean Breeze International (92 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ocean Breeze International
Ocean Breeze International (92 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Ocean Breeze International has more employees than the Cut flower growing 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
2024 8.9 7.2 10 0 0
2023 4.1 4.1 4 0 0
2022 8.5 4.7 7 2 0
2021 7.4 4.2 7 0 0
2020 2.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 7.8 6.8 8 0 0
2018 4.7 2.8 5 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · CA · Carpinteria

166 Cut flower growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 45 employers in Carpinteria, 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 Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (MO) 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bob's Market and Greenhouses Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harts Nursery of Jefferson, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van de Wetering Greenhouses, Inc. 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nunez Ag, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Vineyard Management, Inc. 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Bella Nursery 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass House Group Inc. 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 166 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR LinkedIn Carpinteria 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coastal Blooms Nursery, LLC 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuSil Technology, Carpinteria 322 FTE
NAT-TCR Park Ridge Park District 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Christopher Heights of Worcester 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunburst Trout Farms 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jaro Transportation Services Inc-Warren 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Niagara Bottling, LLC - Columbus 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moncks Corner Elementary formally Berkeley Intermediate School 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE S R Mechanical, Inc 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Macchia Group, LLC 92 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.