Farm labor contractors · California

Premium Packing, Inc.

Salinas, CA · ~1,050 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Premium Packing, Inc. runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Premium Packing, Inc.: 6.7 TCR = 148% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Premium Packing, Inc. safety composite

Premium Packing, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−5.7

2017→2023

Premium Packing, Inc. injury rate improved

Premium Packing, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.7 from 10.7 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.7 · 2018=9.3 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 148% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #449/620
  • PHOTO CenCal Ag, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 431 inj
  • SIZE ~1,050 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CenCal Ag, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Premium Packing, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Premium Packing, Inc. averages 6.7 TCR (148% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Premium Packing, Inc. TCR series: 2017=10.7 · 2018=9.3 · 2021=4.9 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=5 · BLS 4.5

Where Premium Packing, Inc. falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #449 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Premium Packing, Inc. (1,050 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Premium Packing, Inc.
Premium Packing, Inc. (1,050 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Premium Packing, Inc. has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a higher 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
2023 5.0 2.1 101 9 0
2022 3.5 3.1 70 4 1
2021 4.9 2.0 67 1 0
2018 9.3 2.8 87 30 0
2017 10.7 3.7 106 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Salinas

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 CenCal Ag, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Irigoyen Farms, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RRS Farms a California General Partnership 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Firebaugh Packinghouse 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 512 1,049 FTE
STATE-SIZE ELSGCAHU - AT&T Services, Inc. 1,051 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fowler Packing Company 1,048 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2005 - Downey 1,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR New Braunfels Smokehouse 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0260 - Tolleson Az (Wet) Depot 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR L2 Construction Services LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpha Sintered Metals, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort 1,050 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weston Solutions Inc. 1,050 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mary Elizabeth Hospital 1,050 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tucson HomeGoods Distribution Center 1,050 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.