Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses · California

Palisades Ranch

Vernon, CA · ~132 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palisades Ranch runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade F.

Palisades Ranch: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palisades Ranch safety composite

Palisades Ranch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−1.9

2018→2023

Palisades Ranch injury rate improved

Palisades Ranch's TCR fell 1.9 from 6.8 in 2018 to 4.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.8 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #24/43
  • PHOTO DSM Raw
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DSM Raw (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palisades Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palisades Ranch averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Palisades Ranch TCR series: 2018=6.8 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=4.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Palisades Ranch falls in its industry

613 Boxed meat produced from purch establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 43 Boxed meat produced from purch employers in California.

Palisades Ranch (132 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Palisades Ranch
Palisades Ranch (132 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Palisades Ranch has fewer employees than the Boxed meat produced from purchased carca median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 4.9 4.9 7 0 0
2022 8.3 8.3 10 1 0
2018 6.8 6.8 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · CA · Vernon

613 Boxed meat produced from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, 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 DSM Raw 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premio Foods Inc. Brooksville 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR OSI Group 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Braunfels Smokehouse 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midnight Harvest 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOHNSTON FARMS 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Irigoyen Farms, Inc. 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri Pointe Homes Orange County-Los Angeles 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR K & K Land and Management, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-024-Kokomo ( RK-024 ) 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #937 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Square Cow Moovers--Central 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sierra Plastics, Inc. 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE RestoreCore Inc. 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4223-M2600 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE DePere Liquor Co., LLC 132 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, 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.