Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · California

O.P. Murphy & Sons

Soledad, CA · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
27.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O.P. Murphy & Sons runs at 606% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade F.

O.P. Murphy & Sons: 27.3 TCR = 606% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O.P. Murphy & Sons safety composite

O.P. Murphy & Sons scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 27.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

O.P. Murphy & Sons: 21.6 → 32.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 32.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.06× in 2019

O.P. Murphy & Sons's TCR rose 11.3 from 21.6 in 2018 to 32.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Soledad, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 27.3 · 606% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #236/236
  • PHOTO WORLEY & MCCULLOUGH,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WORLEY & MCCULLOUGH, INC. (4.8 TCR gap)

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O.P. Murphy & Sons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O.P. Murphy & Sons averages 27.3 TCR (606% of the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

O.P. Murphy & Sons TCR series: 2018=21.6 · 2019=32.9 · BLS 4.5

Where O.P. Murphy & Sons falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #236 safest of 236 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in California.

O.P. Murphy & Sons (80 employees, TCR 27.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate O.P. Murphy & Sons
O.P. Murphy & Sons (80 employees, TCR 27.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

O.P. Murphy & Sons has more employees than the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2019 32.9 1.6 20 1 0
2018 21.6 0.0 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Soledad

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Soledad, 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 WORLEY & MCCULLOUGH, INC. 22.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornerstone Packing & Cooling 21.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guar Resources LLC 19.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MALAGA BUILDING F 17.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE JJJ HARVESTING 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE T&A - Huron - Farm 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacifc International Marketing 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilgenburg Greenhouses 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista Verde Labor, Inc 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cerritos Farms, Inc. 1,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Value Added Soledad 826 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRO AG HARVESTING INC. 795 FTE
NAT-TCR iFLY Kansas City 27.3 TCR
NAT-TCR School for the Deaf 27.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Regional Express ATL Inc 27.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gordon Countryside Care 27.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Genesis Hospitality Corporation 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sundt Generating Station (TPP) 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arcos Industries LLC 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bobs Produce Ranch 80 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: 2019, 2018. 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.