Strawberry farming · California

R. Montanez Farms, LLC

Royal Oaks - Monterey, CA · ~211 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R. Montanez Farms, LLC runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade B.

R. Montanez Farms, LLC: 3.0 TCR = 68% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R. Montanez Farms, LLC safety composite

R. Montanez Farms, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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. Montanez Farms, LLC: 0.0 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2022

R. Montanez Farms, LLC's TCR rose 2.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Royal Oaks - Monterey, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 68% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #48/124
  • PHOTO AJ FARM LABOR CONTRA…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~211 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AJ FARM LABOR CONTRACTING, INC OFFICE (0.0 TCR gap)

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R. Montanez Farms, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R. Montanez Farms, LLC averages 3.0 TCR (68% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

R. Montanez Farms, LLC TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6.8 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.9 · 2022=2.6 · BLS 4.5

Where R. Montanez Farms, LLC falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #48 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

R. Montanez Farms, LLC (211 employees, TCR 3.0) 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. Montanez Farms, LLC
R. Montanez Farms, LLC (211 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

R. Montanez Farms, LLC has more employees than the Strawberry farming median and a lower 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
2022 2.6 2.6 6 1 0
2020 2.9 2.9 7 0 0
2019 2.9 2.9 6 2 0
2018 6.8 6.3 12 2 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Royal Oaks - Monterey

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 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 AJ FARM LABOR CONTRACTING, INC OFFICE 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buenaventura Ranch, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SANTA CLARA FARMS LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harry's Berries 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CA - San Jose, 1900 S 10th 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pasadena Meadows Nursing Center 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lawry's Carvery-South Coast Plaza 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE 941 211 FTE
NAT-TCR Tops #428 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wear Technology 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Food City Store #735 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Primm Valley 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE HOU-ODFL 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skills Development Services, Inc 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meritan - Memphis 211 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: 2022, 2020, 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.