Strawberry farming · California

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC

Watsonville, CA · ~16 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC: 1.5 TCR = 33% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC safety composite

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% 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

−0.5

2022→2024

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC injury rate improved

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC's TCR fell 0.5 from 1.5 in 2022 to 1.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=1.5 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #23/124
  • PHOTO Strawberry Harvest
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~16 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Strawberry Harvest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ortega Berry Farms, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ortega Berry Farms, LLC averages 1.5 TCR (33% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC TCR series: 2022=1.5 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1 · BLS 4.5

Where Ortega Berry Farms, LLC falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 82% 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 #23 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC (16 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Ortega Berry Farms, LLC
Ortega Berry Farms, LLC (16 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Ortega Berry Farms, LLC 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
2024 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2023 1.9 1.5 5 0 0
2022 1.5 0.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Watsonville

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Strawberry Harvest 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darensberries, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLD TOWN HARVESTING, INC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shastina 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE RECREATION AND PARKS, CHEVIOT HILLS MAINT YARD 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lincoln Park RC 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOR 90 16 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOR 75 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR East Providence 10202 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tyler 10520 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hobbs 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ICP Distribution Center 1.5 TCR

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, 2022. 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.