Processed meats manufacturing · California

Papa Cantella's Inc.

Vernon, CA · ~199 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Papa Cantella's Inc. runs at 323% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Papa Cantella's Inc.: 10.7 TCR = 323% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Papa Cantella's Inc. safety composite

Papa Cantella's Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

−9.0

2017→2024

Papa Cantella's Inc. injury rate improved

Papa Cantella's Inc.'s TCR fell 9.0 from 13.9 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=13.9 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=12.6 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 323% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #39/43
  • PHOTO Fricks Quality Meats
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 147 inj
  • SIZE ~199 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fricks Quality Meats (0.1 TCR gap)

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Papa Cantella's Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Papa Cantella's Inc. averages 10.7 TCR (323% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Papa Cantella's Inc. TCR series: 2017=13.9 · 2018=8.6 · 2019=12.6 · 2020=11.6 · 2021=10.1 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Papa Cantella's Inc. falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #39 safest of 43 Processed meats manufacturing employers in California.

Papa Cantella's Inc. (199 employees, TCR 10.7) 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 Papa Cantella's Inc.
Papa Cantella's Inc. (199 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Papa Cantella's Inc. has fewer employees than the Processed meats manufacturing 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
2024 4.8 3.9 10 0 0
2023 12.9 11.0 20 7 0
2022 10.7 9.8 25 0 0
2021 10.1 6.9 20 2 0
2020 11.6 11.2 7 19 0
2019 12.6 3.5 25 0 0
2018 8.6 6.6 17 0 0
2017 13.9 8.1 23 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · CA · Vernon

613 Processed meats manufacturing 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 Fricks Quality Meats 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pontrelli & Laricchia 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooked- Albert Lea MN 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WMP - Planta Procesadora 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Central District 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Let's Do Lunch, Inc. dba Integrated Food Service 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salt - Newark, CA 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE EJ Gallo Winery -Spirits Plant 199 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 Trader Joe's 0763 Tallahassee 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Wenzel Metal Spinning, Inc. 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Elixir DMC Division 24 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gross-Yowell 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ingevity SC, LLC - Charleston Chemical Plant 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orangeburg Department of Public Utilities 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roncelli Inc. 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meadville Medical Center Grove Street 199 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: 2024, 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.