Farm Management Services · California

Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville

Castroville, CA · ~145 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm Management Services workplace, earning a grade C.

Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville: 4.3 TCR = 96% of Farm Management Services BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville safety composite

Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 Mist Farms - Castroville: 3.9 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2021

Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville's TCR rose 0.7 from 3.9 in 2017 to 4.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115116 · Castroville, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 96% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #17/46
  • PHOTO Ag Land Services
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~145 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ag Land Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville averages 4.3 TCR (96% of the Farm Management Services BLS benchmark).

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

Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=3.9 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=4.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville falls in its industry

75 Farm Management Services establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 46 Farm Management Services employers in California.

Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville (145 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.7 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville
Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville (145 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 5.7

Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville has more employees than the Farm Management Services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.7. 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
2021 4.6 4.6 7 0 0
2020 4.2 2.1 6 0 0
2019 3.9 1.3 5 1 0
2018 4.9 3.5 6 1 0
2017 3.9 3.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115116 · CA · Castroville

75 Farm Management Services 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 Ag Land Services 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Ag Land Management, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Natural Prairie Organic, LLC 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bella Mia Management LP_Tracy 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CADY - 02 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE R&T Farm Management, Inc. 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE SANTA ROSA OFFICES 145 FTE
STATE-SIZE Union Sanitary District 145 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 Del Llano Farms 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Caifornia 93 FTE
NAT-TCR Jabil Packaging Solutions 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Manorcare Dallastown 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyde Park Assisted Living 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dhaliwal Labs LLC 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4818-NEAL 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwest 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central WA FAMILY MEDICINE 145 FTE
NAT-SIZE Labelworks - 0021 145 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.