Strawberry farming · California

R & A Uyematsu, LLC

Watsonville, CA · ~43 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R & A Uyematsu, LLC runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade D.

R & A Uyematsu, LLC: 8.7 TCR = 192% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R & A Uyematsu, LLC safety composite

R & A Uyematsu, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

R & A Uyematsu, LLC held a steady TCR band

R & A Uyematsu, LLC's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.4 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 31.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.4 · 2021=31.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #104/124
  • PHOTO West Coast Berry Far…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Coast Berry Farms, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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R & A Uyematsu, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R & A Uyematsu, LLC averages 8.7 TCR (192% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

R & A Uyematsu, LLC TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2021=31.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 4.5

Where R & A Uyematsu, LLC falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

R & A Uyematsu, LLC (43 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R & A Uyematsu, LLC
R & A Uyematsu, LLC (43 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

R & A Uyematsu, LLC has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 4.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 31.9 26.6 6 0 0
2017 4.4 4.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Watsonville

132 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR West Coast Berry Farms, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Rosa Berry Farms, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joshua Ranch 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corralitos Nursery 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 39 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton Overhead Door - Modesto 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Historical Properties Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Outdoor Living warehouse 43 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 1434 City of Highland Park 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hardin Industries LLC 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy Wendy's-208 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Turman Sawmill Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Branch 3119 - WP Bellmawr NJ 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branch 4064 - WP- Parsippany N 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE McDonald's of Covington 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Firelands Electric, Inc. - Lorain 43 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, 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.