Strawberry farming · California

Pacifico Berry Farms

Oxnard, CA · ~45 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pacifico Berry Farms runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Pacifico Berry Farms: 6.1 TCR = 135% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pacifico Berry Farms safety composite

Pacifico Berry Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Pacifico Berry Farms: 4.2 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.8× in 2023

Pacifico Berry Farms's TCR rose 6.8 from 4.2 in 2017 to 11.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Oxnard, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #81/124
  • PHOTO Colorado Farms LLC.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colorado Farms LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pacifico Berry Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pacifico Berry Farms averages 6.1 TCR (135% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Pacifico Berry Farms TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=0 · 2021=5 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=11 · BLS 4.5

Where Pacifico Berry Farms falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #81 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Pacifico Berry Farms (45 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 Pacifico Berry Farms
Pacifico Berry Farms (45 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Pacifico Berry Farms has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher 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 11.0 11.0 2 0 0
2022 7.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.4 5.6 4 0 0
2018 7.1 7.1 5 0 0
2017 4.2 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Oxnard

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 303 employers in Oxnard, 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 Colorado Farms LLC. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Bluff Nursery 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snelling Nursery 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SVL - 01 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Griffith Traffic Control 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE 05020-TBHL-CA-OAKLAND AREA 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Napa Valley Lodge LP 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camp Marston/Camp Raintree 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OXR1 2,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Oxnard 1,753 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030383 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Regional Medical Center 1,352 FTE
NAT-TCR Camden Health & Rehab 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wide Horizons Residential Care 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Contructions 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinks Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frederick Steel Co 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Steel & Machinery, Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 7-SIGMA Incorporated 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE PCC Structurals - SSB1 45 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.