Pest control services, agricultural · California

R E Badger and Son Inc

Encinitas, CA · ~40 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R E Badger and Son Inc runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pest control services, agricultural workplace, earning a grade F.

R E Badger and Son Inc: 9.1 TCR = 203% of Pest control services, agricultural BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R E Badger and Son Inc safety composite

R E Badger and Son Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Rising injury rate

R E Badger and Son Inc: 0.0 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 31.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

R E Badger and Son Inc's TCR rose 4.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 31.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115112 · Encinitas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 203% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #68/86
  • PHOTO Medical Cannabis Gro…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Medical Cannabis Grower (0.1 TCR gap)

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R E Badger and Son Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R E Badger and Son Inc averages 9.1 TCR (203% of the Pest control services, agricultural BLS benchmark).

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

R E Badger and Son Inc TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=11.5 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=31.6 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 4.5

Where R E Badger and Son Inc falls in its industry

221 Pest control services, agricul establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 86 Pest control services, agricul employers in California.

R E Badger and Son Inc (40 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate R E Badger and Son Inc
R E Badger and Son Inc (40 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8

R E Badger and Son Inc has fewer employees than the Pest control services, agricultural median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 4.9 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 8.3 5.5 3 0 0
2021 31.6 31.6 1 9 0
2020 8.5 2.8 1 2 0
2019 8.1 5.4 3 0 0
2018 11.5 11.5 2 2 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115112 · CA · Encinitas

221 Pest control services, agricultural employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 57 employers in Encinitas, 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 Medical Cannabis Grower 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oxford Farms, Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AI Main 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR P&C Farms 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2261-00000320 1,706 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dudek 810 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1029 - Encinitas 284 FTE
NAT-TCR Clallam County Public Hospital District #1 (DBA Forks Community Hospital) 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR September Ends Co 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mount Holly Main Campus 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gillette Nursing Home 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hospice of Laurens County 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hoffman's R&M Services 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Master Machine, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Refurb 40 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, 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.