Strawberry farming · California

organic berries

Piru, CA · ~33 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

organic berries runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade B.

organic berries: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

organic berries safety composite

organic berries scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−8.8

2017→2023

organic berries injury rate improved

organic berries's TCR fell 8.8 from 8.8 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.8 · 2018=13.0 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Piru, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #57/124
  • PHOTO Ito Brothers Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ito Brothers Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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organic berries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows organic berries averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

organic berries TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2018=13 · 2019=2.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where organic berries falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

organic berries (33 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate organic berries
organic berries (33 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

organic berries has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.8 0.0 0 1 0
2018 13.0 13.0 4 0 0
2017 8.8 5.3 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Piru

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 6 employers in Piru, 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 Ito Brothers Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR T.T.Miyasaka Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fujishige Farms, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR JDB Pro Inc, dba Central West Produce 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Astoria at Oakdale, LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Enterprises INc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1066 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRH012 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR La Verne Nursery, Inc. 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fillmore Piru Citrus Associateon 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Piru 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fillmore Piru Citrus Association 49 FTE
NAT-TCR Conns DC-Houston 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodman's Food Market Madison East 16 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Corbin/London KY FXFE-CRB 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Veritiv Operating Company - TX392 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ernest Packaging Solutions Arizona 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Davidson Brothers Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE HDN Hayden Steamboat- Yampa Valley Airport 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoffman Specialty Contracting Inc. 33 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: 2023, 2022, 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.