Vegetables dehydrating · California

Olam West Coast

Gilroy, CA · ~450 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Olam West Coast runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetables dehydrating workplace, earning a grade F.

Olam West Coast: 7.4 TCR = 224% of Vegetables dehydrating BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Olam West Coast safety composite

Olam West Coast scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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 7.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.6

2023→2024

Olam West Coast injury rate improved

Olam West Coast's TCR fell 0.6 from 7.7 in 2023 to 7.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.7 · 2024=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Gilroy, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 224% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #19/25
  • PHOTO Sunsweet Dryer - Ham…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~450 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunsweet Dryer - Hamilton City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Olam West Coast in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Olam West Coast averages 7.4 TCR (224% of the Vegetables dehydrating BLS benchmark).

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

Olam West Coast TCR series: 2023=7.7 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Olam West Coast falls in its industry

123 Vegetables dehydrating establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #19 safest of 25 Vegetables dehydrating employers in California.

Olam West Coast (450 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Olam West Coast
Olam West Coast (450 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Olam West Coast has more employees than the Vegetables dehydrating 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 7.1 5.1 24 4 0
2023 7.7 6.7 28 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · CA · Gilroy

123 Vegetables dehydrating employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 113 employers in Gilroy, 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 Sunsweet Dryer - Hamilton City 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chukar Cherries (Plant 1) 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR OFD - Plant 4 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR JFFFI-Plant 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE National Diversified Sales 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core-Mark Corona 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2013 - Rancho Cucamonga 450 FTE
STATE-SIZE Super Store Industries Lathrop 450 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 9 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Christopher Ranch LLC 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0010-00100005 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olam Spices 437 FTE
NAT-TCR Loudon Industries, Inc 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Forest MS Complex 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Indus School 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dixie Southern 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mount Desert Island Hospital 450 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paccar Technical Center 450 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goyette Mechanical 450 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grocery East Warehouse 450 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.