Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · California

Ratto Bros Inc

Modesto, CA · ~266 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Ratto Bros Inc runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Ratto Bros Inc: 7.7 TCR = 172% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ratto Bros Inc safety composite

Ratto Bros Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Ratto Bros Inc: 1.7 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 17.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Ratto Bros Inc's TCR rose 5.2 from 1.7 in 2017 to 6.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 17.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Modesto, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #128/175
  • PHOTO MERRILL FARMS LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 168 inj
  • SIZE ~266 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MERRILL FARMS LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

Ratto Bros Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ratto Bros Inc averages 7.7 TCR (172% of the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Ratto Bros Inc TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=17.4 · 2021=12.9 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=6.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Ratto Bros Inc falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #128 safest of 175 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in California.

Ratto Bros Inc (266 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Ratto Bros Inc
Ratto Bros Inc (266 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Ratto Bros Inc has more employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 6.9 5.5 21 0 0
2023 7.2 2.9 25 0 0
2022 10.4 3.7 28 0 0
2021 12.9 6.3 31 0 0
2020 17.4 15.4 44 0 0
2019 2.7 1.6 7 0 0
2018 2.7 0.8 7 0 0
2017 1.7 0.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Modesto

331 Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 418 employers in Modesto, 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 MERRILL FARMS LLC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christensen & Giannini LLC 1588 Moffett St., Ste B 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tolono Research 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linda Vista Farms 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cassin Ranch 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moonlight Packing Company, LLC Plant 1 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE CANUS Services, Inc. 266 FTE
STATE-SIZE The G.B. Group, Inc. 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240) 3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modesto Operations 3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-930 3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR 930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO 2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR Plover Wi - 3107 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Total Package Logistics LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR JWC New Berlin 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Molin Concrete Products Inc 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greenwood Village, CO 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE NorthCare Hospice House 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evonik Corporation 266 FTE
NAT-SIZE TransPak - DIV 145 TechRidge Austin 266 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.