Agave farming · California

Paloma Packing Inc.

Santa Maria, CA · ~942 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Paloma Packing Inc. runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Agave farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Paloma Packing Inc.: 1.0 TCR = 22% of Agave farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Paloma Packing Inc. safety composite

Paloma Packing Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−0.9

2017→2019

Paloma Packing Inc. injury rate improved

Paloma Packing Inc.'s TCR fell 0.9 from 1.2 in 2017 to 0.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.2 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Santa Maria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #3/21
  • PHOTO Siller Brothers Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~942 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Siller Brothers Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Paloma Packing Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Paloma Packing Inc. averages 1.0 TCR (22% of the Agave farming BLS benchmark).

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

Paloma Packing Inc. TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=0.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Paloma Packing Inc. falls in its industry

128 Agave farming establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 21 Agave farming employers in California.

Paloma Packing Inc. (942 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 Paloma Packing Inc.
Paloma Packing Inc. (942 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Paloma Packing Inc. has more employees than the Agave farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2019 0.3 0.3 2 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 10 0 0
2017 1.2 1.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · CA · Santa Maria

128 Agave farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 Siller Brothers Inc 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Heirloom Collective, Inc. Hadley 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bedford Grow LLC 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hwy 37 Farms 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE DL FARM MANAGEMENT, INC. 943 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Valley Distribution Center - CVDC 943 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gillig LLC 940 FTE
STATE-SIZE Astreya Partners, LLC 939 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Little Knife Field 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Starcraft Interior Contractors Ltd 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BT Buffalo Grove 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit Sportservice, Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE TRAX Test Services 942 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX008 942 FTE
NAT-SIZE 422-DC001 942 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2039-Office of the Commissioner of Baseball 941 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: 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.