Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) · California

Pauma Valley

Pauma Valley, CA · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pauma Valley runs at 28% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) workplace, earning a grade A.

Pauma Valley: 1.2 TCR = 28% of Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pauma Valley safety composite

Pauma Valley scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−2.8

2020→2024

Pauma Valley injury rate improved

Pauma Valley's TCR fell 2.8 from 2.8 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.8 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Pauma Valley, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 28% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/120
  • PHOTO Valley Sod Farms, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valley Sod Farms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pauma Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pauma Valley averages 1.2 TCR (28% of the Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) BLS benchmark).

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

Pauma Valley TCR series: 2020=2.8 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Pauma Valley falls in its industry

386 Nursery with tree production ( establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 120 Nursery with tree production ( employers in California.

Pauma Valley (54 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Pauma Valley
Pauma Valley (54 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Pauma Valley has more employees than the Nursery with tree production (except for median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.8 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Pauma Valley

386 Nursery with tree production (except for reforestation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 4 employers in Pauma Valley, 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 Valley Sod Farms, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treesap Farms LLC - Houston 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fallbrook 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CH Smith Const. Inc. dba Verdigris Valley Sod Farms 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sea Mist Farms 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harold E. Robben, Jr. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Maria Perez 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE DURLING NURSERY, INC. 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR T-Y Nursery, Inc. 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pauma Valley Country Club 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Produce Harvesting, Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-TCR 8060 Riverside School District EVS 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR OFS Bryan Ashley 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Teleflex Jaffrey 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Quincy Oil Extraction 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Union 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fayette Janitorial LLC- George's Springdale 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fayette Janitorial LLC- Perdue Salisbury 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Harrisonburg Public Utilities (Operations) 54 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.