Grape farming without making wine · California

Rio Blanco Farms

Delano, CA · ~24 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rio Blanco Farms runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Grape farming without making wine workplace, earning a grade C.

Rio Blanco Farms: 3.9 TCR = 86% of Grape farming without making wine BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rio Blanco Farms safety composite

Rio Blanco Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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 3.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

Rio Blanco Farms held a steady TCR band

Rio Blanco Farms's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.7 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.7 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111332 · Delano, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 86% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #64/151
  • PHOTO Cottonwood
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cottonwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rio Blanco Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rio Blanco Farms averages 3.9 TCR (86% of the Grape farming without making wine BLS benchmark).

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

Rio Blanco Farms TCR series: 2017=3.7 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Rio Blanco Farms falls in its industry

162 Grape farming without making w establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 151 Grape farming without making w employers in California.

Rio Blanco Farms (24 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Rio Blanco Farms
Rio Blanco Farms (24 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Rio Blanco Farms has fewer employees than the Grape farming without making wine median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 6.8 6.8 1 1 0
2022 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 6.8 0.0 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2017 3.7 3.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111332 · CA · Delano

162 Grape farming without making wine employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 123 employers in Delano, 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 Cottonwood 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Delano Farms (Farming) 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gallo Vineyards, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canoe Ridge Estate Vineyards #12 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR HMN Incorporated 1,942 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rachma Contracting, Inc. 1,600 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kern Valley State Prison 1,523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sunview Vineyards of California Inc 1,489 FTE
NAT-TCR 306WOR 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing - El Paso 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Barnett Contracting, Inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brownstown Complex 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutherlands Home Base - Mineral Wells 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blythewood Crew Quarters 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aiken Substation/Transmission 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Palm Beach WPB 24 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.