Cabbage farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · California

Refco Farms LLC

Salinas, CA · ~102 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Refco Farms LLC runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cabbage farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Refco Farms LLC: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Cabbage farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Refco Farms LLC safety composite

Refco Farms LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Refco Farms LLC: 3.5 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Refco Farms LLC's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.5 in 2019 to 4.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #84/175
  • PHOTO HM Clause - Immokale…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HM Clause - Immokalee Research Station (0.0 TCR gap)

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Refco Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Refco Farms LLC averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Cabbage farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Refco Farms LLC TCR series: 2019=3.5 · 2020=8 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=4.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Refco Farms LLC falls in its industry

331 Cabbage farming, field, beddin establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #84 safest of 175 Cabbage farming, field, beddin employers in California.

Refco Farms LLC (102 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Refco Farms LLC
Refco Farms LLC (102 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Refco Farms LLC has more employees than the Cabbage farming, field, bedding plant an 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
2023 4.7 0.0 2 1 0
2022 3.1 2.1 2 1 0
2021 8.9 6.9 7 2 0
2020 8.0 4.0 8 0 0
2019 3.5 2.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

331 Cabbage farming, field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 HM Clause - Immokalee Research Station 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blosser Ranch 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Valley Harvesting, LLC. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR W D Henry & Sons Inc 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Pinery LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Rey Packing Co 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE ONM 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE FREMONT MATERIALS FACILITY 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR R.J. Williams, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 152-Laredo/Santa Maria 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Brothers Company 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaiser Home Support Services, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE CMSWillowbrook 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE ProWorks 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gainey's Concrete Products 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE 24M Technologies Inc. 102 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.