Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Plant Sciences, Watsonville

Watsonville, CA · ~86 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plant Sciences, Watsonville runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade B.

Plant Sciences, Watsonville: 3.2 TCR = 70% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant Sciences, Watsonville safety composite

Plant Sciences, Watsonville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 53%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Plant Sciences, Watsonville: 1.1 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Plant Sciences, Watsonville's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.1 in 2019 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Watsonville, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.2 · 70% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #230/620
  • PHOTO Arlene Resource Mana…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arlene Resource Management LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Plant Sciences, Watsonville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plant Sciences, Watsonville averages 3.2 TCR (70% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

Plant Sciences, Watsonville TCR series: 2019=1.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=7 · 2023=6.6 · 2024=2 · BLS 4.5

Where Plant Sciences, Watsonville falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #230 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Plant Sciences, Watsonville (86 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Plant Sciences, Watsonville
Plant Sciences, Watsonville (86 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Plant Sciences, Watsonville has fewer employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a lower 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 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2023 6.6 6.6 5 1 0
2022 7.0 4.7 5 1 0
2021 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Watsonville

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 Arlene Resource Management LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCF-SALINAS 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rochester Farms, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GONZALEZ BROTHERS FARM SERVICES, INC 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MALAGA HARVEST SHOP 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Muller Ranch, LLC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE OXNARD TERRACE 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mushroom Farms 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR MillerKnoll Seating Greenhouse 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cincinnati Plant 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Distrcit 1 Maintance 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RML Specialty Hospital Chicago 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ralph S. Alberts Co., Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Corrosion Control 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Police Department 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanahan Middle School 86 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.