Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · California

Pappas Family Farms, Inc.

Fresno, CA · ~696 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pappas Family Farms, Inc. runs at 289% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade F.

Pappas Family Farms, Inc.: 13.0 TCR = 289% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pappas Family Farms, Inc. safety composite

Pappas Family Farms, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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 13.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Pappas Family Farms, Inc.: 5.7 → 20.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 20.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2018

Pappas Family Farms, Inc.'s TCR rose 14.7 from 5.7 in 2017 to 20.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 289% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #168/175
  • PHOTO J&J Labor,Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~696 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J&J Labor,Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Pappas Family Farms, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pappas Family Farms, Inc. averages 13.0 TCR (289% of the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Pappas Family Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2018=20.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Pappas Family Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #168 safest of 175 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in California.

Pappas Family Farms, Inc. (696 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Pappas Family Farms, Inc.
Pappas Family Farms, Inc. (696 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Pappas Family Farms, Inc. has more employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2018 20.4 4.7 31 4 0
2017 5.7 1.6 23 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Fresno

331 Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 J&J Labor,Inc. 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Baby Produce, Inc. 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dick Peixoto Company 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primetime Harvesting Inc 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 1901 S.Lexington St 696 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stone Brewing Company - All California based locations 696 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neo Aliso Viejo 696 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coherent Inc. 695 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR Active Pest Control 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Anchorage 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hot Springs (Arhot) 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Olean Center (Nyall) 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Octane Group Inc. 696 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leupold & Stevens, Inc 696 FTE
NAT-SIZE NORTHEAST 696 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Western International 696 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: 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.