Strawberry farming · California

Red Blossom

Santa Maria, CA · ~208 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Red Blossom runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade B.

Red Blossom: 2.4 TCR = 53% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Red Blossom safety composite

Red Blossom scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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

Red Blossom: 0.0 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2023

Red Blossom's TCR rose 1.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Santa Maria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #38/124
  • PHOTO Wish Farms
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wish Farms (0.1 TCR gap)

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Red Blossom in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Red Blossom averages 2.4 TCR (53% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Red Blossom TCR series: 2017=0 · 2020=7.5 · 2022=0.2 · 2023=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Red Blossom falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #38 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Red Blossom (208 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 Red Blossom
Red Blossom (208 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Red Blossom 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
2023 1.7 0.7 5 0 0
2022 0.2 0.2 3 0 0
2020 7.5 7.5 2 23 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Santa Maria

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 Wish Farms 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laurel Labor Services 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FESTIVAL FARMS 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&G FARMING, INC. 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Las Vegas 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2232 - Natl City Pl Bonita 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Placentia 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monterey Marriott 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR John W Danforth Company 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 55432 Midway RAC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McCloskey International Warehouse 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br15 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fullmer Cattle Company 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE BayPointe Hospitals 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Mennonite Home 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Student 208 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 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.