Packing fruits and vegetables · California

Pappas Family Farms Cooler

Mendota, CA · ~52 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pappas Family Farms Cooler runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Packing fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade B.

Pappas Family Farms Cooler: 2.9 TCR = 65% of Packing fruits and vegetables BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pappas Family Farms Cooler safety composite

Pappas Family Farms Cooler scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

Pappas Family Farms Cooler: 0.2 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Pappas Family Farms Cooler's TCR rose 4.0 from 0.2 in 2020 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Mendota, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 65% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #61/236
  • PHOTO KLINK ORANGE COVE CI…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KLINK ORANGE COVE CITRUS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pappas Family Farms Cooler in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pappas Family Farms Cooler averages 2.9 TCR (65% of the Packing fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Pappas Family Farms Cooler TCR series: 2020=0.2 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Pappas Family Farms Cooler falls in its industry

666 Packing fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 236 Packing fruits and vegetables employers in California.

Pappas Family Farms Cooler (52 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pappas Family Farms Cooler
Pappas Family Farms Cooler (52 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Pappas Family Farms Cooler has fewer employees than the Packing fruits and vegetables median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2024 4.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.2 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.2 0.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Mendota

666 Packing fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 10 employers in Mendota, 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 KLINK ORANGE COVE CITRUS 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birdsong Colquitt, Georgia 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1886-Huxley, IA (Monsanto Co.) 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dundee Citrus Growers Association 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phil Foster Ranch 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Ivanhoe 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brassfield Estate Vineyard 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 629 1,479 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pappas Family Farms Shop & Farm 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Correctional Institution Mendota 752 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stamoules Produce Company 481 FTE
NAT-TCR Zurcher Tire Inc. - Sturgis 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR IPC Lydon, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 10621 Destin 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisville - A361 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1925 Grandview Parkway, Sturtevant, WI 53177 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Hospital Healdton 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE DP Inc. General Contractors 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX010GVM 52 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.