Grape farming without making wine · California

Palm

Bakersfield, CA · ~926 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palm runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Grape farming without making wine workplace, earning a grade A.

Palm: 1.7 TCR = 38% of Grape farming without making wine BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palm safety composite

Palm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Palm held a steady TCR band

Palm's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.0 in 2018 to 0.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.0 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111332 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #22/151
  • PHOTO Grapeman Farms
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~926 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grapeman Farms (0.1 TCR gap)

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Palm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palm averages 1.7 TCR (38% of the Grape farming without making wine BLS benchmark).

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

Palm TCR series: 2018=1 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=0.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Palm falls in its industry

162 Grape farming without making w establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 151 Grape farming without making w employers in California.

Palm (926 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Palm
Palm (926 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Palm has more employees than the Grape farming without making wine median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 0.9 0.6 3 0 0
2022 3.5 2.9 6 0 0
2021 1.4 1.1 5 0 0
2018 1.0 0.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111332 · CA · Bakersfield

162 Grape farming without making wine employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 818 employers in Bakersfield, 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 Grapeman Farms 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Castlerock Farming & Transport LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kyer Farms 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penterman Farming Company 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE TAPIA S & A SERVICE INC. 926 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ono-042 925 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pan-Pacific Mechanical 924 FTE
STATE-SIZE AVMC LLC dba BLACKSTONE TOYOTA OF FRESNO 924 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Bakersfield 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-04 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1 4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esparza Enterprises, Inc 3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR Bennett Equipment & Supply Co., Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Orange Press, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Maple Ridge Farms, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR East 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE John Soules Foods Inc 926 FTE
NAT-SIZE 174038-Indianapolis in P&Dc 926 FTE
NAT-SIZE J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc. 926 FTE
NAT-SIZE Q3 Contracting 926 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, 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.