Vegetables, machine harvesting · California

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting

Castroville, CA · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetables, machine harvesting workplace, earning a grade F.

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting: 11.4 TCR = 254% of Vegetables, machine harvesting BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting safety composite

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2023→2024

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting injury rate improved

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting's TCR fell 2.5 from 12.7 in 2023 to 10.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=12.7 · 2024=10.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115113 · Castroville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 254% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #24/25
  • PHOTO Cinagro Harvesting, …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cinagro Harvesting, LLC (0.3 TCR gap)

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Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting averages 11.4 TCR (254% of the Vegetables, machine harvesting BLS benchmark).

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

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting TCR series: 2023=12.7 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting falls in its industry

34 Vegetables, machine harvesting establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 25 Vegetables, machine harvesting employers in California.

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting (31 employees, TCR 11.4) among 21 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 22 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 Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting
Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting (31 employees, TCR 11.4) among 21 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Ocean Mist farms- Harvesting has fewer employees than the Vegetables, machine harvesting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 10.2 2.6 4 0 0
2023 12.7 5.1 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115113 · CA · Castroville

34 Vegetables, machine harvesting 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 Cinagro Harvesting, LLC 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson Agri LLC 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The DeRuosi Group LLC 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beecher/Ryan Harvesting-HQ 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nielsen Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Star Nurseries LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 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 Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Del Llano Farms 95 FTE
NAT-TCR BMI Merchandise 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Midnight Express Powerboats 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR King Kullen #11 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Blough, Inc 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wilmington NC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMI Metals NJ 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrisonburg Warehouse 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Potters Industries LLC 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: 2024, 2023. 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.