Berry (except strawberry) farming · California

Premiere Raspberries, LLC

Name: Premiere Raspberries, LLC Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Watsonville, CA · ~680 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 7.3
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Premiere Raspberries, LLC runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Berry (except strawberry) farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Premiere Raspberries, LLC: 7.3 TCR = 162% of Berry (except strawberry) farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premiere Raspberries, LLC safety composite

Premiere Raspberries, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.6

2017→2019

Premiere Raspberries, LLC injury rate improved

Premiere Raspberries, LLC's TCR fell 6.6 from 10.6 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.6 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111334 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.3 · 162% of ind

DART 2.2 DART
RANK #7/8
PHOTO Sleepy Creek Farms
BOOK 3y book
INJ 71 inj
SIZE ~680 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sleepy Creek Farms (0.1 TCR gap)

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M & G Farms In

7.7
This site

7.3
Sleepy Creek F

7.2
Creekside Farm

6.8
ag land inc

6.7

What this shows Premiere Raspberries, LLC averages 7.3 TCR (162% of the Berry (except strawberry) farming BLS benchmark).

Premiere Raspberries, LLC TCR series: 2017=10.6 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Premiere Raspberries, LLC falls in its industry

41 Berry (except strawberry) farm establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

Grade D

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 8 Berry (except strawberry) farm employers in California.

Premiere Raspberries, LLC (680 employees, TCR 7.3) among 25 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Premiere Raspberries, LLC has more employees than the Berry (except strawberry) farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2019	4.0	2.2	7	2
2018	7.3	3.3	22	9
2017	10.6	4.7	42	5

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111334 · CA · Watsonville

41 Berry (except strawberry) farming 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Sleepy Creek Farms	HARRELLS, NC	7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	M & G Farms Inc	LYNDEN, WA	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Creekside Farms, Inc.	WATSONVILLE, CA	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ag land inc	OXNARD, CA	6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc	RANCHO CUCAMONGA	680 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2050-20500999-WARE01	COMMERCE	680 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMZL : DSF3	SAN JOSE	680 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fire Strike Team Headquarters	LONG BEACH	680 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate Office	Watsonville	2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Watsonville Community Hospital	Watsonville	632 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC	Watsonville	550 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Alta Vista Farms, LP.	Watsonville	467 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sokaogon Gaming Enterprise Corporation	Crandon, WI	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	BERJE' Main Facility	Carteret, NJ	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	LP Harriman, LLC	Harriman, TN	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	1102 Boise Truss	Boise, ID	7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Arris 5	Horsham, PA	680 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Medivators - MN	Plymouth, MN	680 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rivian Automotive, LLC - Normal	Normal, IL	680 FTE
NAT-SIZE	3711 Evadale Mill	Evadale, TX	680 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.