311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning · California

Rancho Santa Margarita

Rancho Santa Margarita, CA · ~99 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rancho Santa Margarita runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning workplace, earning a grade D.

Rancho Santa Margarita: 6.2 TCR = 187% of 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rancho Santa Margarita safety composite

Rancho Santa Margarita scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2017→2024

Rancho Santa Margarita injury rate improved

Rancho Santa Margarita's TCR fell 0.5 from 3.5 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.5 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=6.0 · 2020=9.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Rancho Santa Margarita, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #31/52
  • PHOTO Lodi Plant
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lodi Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rancho Santa Margarita in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rancho Santa Margarita averages 6.2 TCR (187% of the 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning BLS benchmark).

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

Rancho Santa Margarita TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=6 · 2020=9.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Rancho Santa Margarita falls in its industry

330 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Can establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 52 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Can employers in California.

Rancho Santa Margarita (99 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Rancho Santa Margarita
Rancho Santa Margarita (99 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Rancho Santa Margarita has fewer employees than the 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2023 8.5 6.4 4 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 1 1 0
2020 9.8 9.8 0 4 0
2019 6.0 2.0 3 0 0
2018 7.9 5.9 4 0 0
2017 3.5 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · CA · Rancho Santa Margarita

330 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 32 employers in Rancho Santa Margarita, 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 Lodi Plant 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golding Farms Foods - Winston-Salem 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Mushroom Company 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oroville Plant 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MARIA ELENA RUIZ MORALES 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Verne Nursery, Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Sun Grower Services - North 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santa Paula Plant #3 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Applied Medical 4,417 FTE
CITY-NEAR O'Connell Landscape Maintenance 1,224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Circle M Contractors 574 FTE
CITY-NEAR Control Components Inc 280 FTE
NAT-TCR C087 Memphis 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 50075 - Capstone Unfi Chesterfield 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Rapids Clinic 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Foltz Trucking 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Woodlawn Manufacturing LTD 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE DPR Construction - Seattle 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laney's Inc. 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Recycling Lexington 99 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, 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.