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

Rio Farms

King City, CA · ~415 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Rio Farms runs at 181% 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.

Rio Farms: 8.1 TCR = 181% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rio Farms safety composite

Rio Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 24% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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

−4.0

2016→2024

Rio Farms injury rate improved

Rio Farms's TCR fell 4.0 from 12.8 in 2016 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.8 · 2017=11.8 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=8.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · King City, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.1 · 181% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #133/175
  • PHOTO Neil Bassetti Farms,…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 327 inj
  • SIZE ~415 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Neil Bassetti Farms, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rio Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rio Farms averages 8.1 TCR (181% 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

Rio Farms TCR series: 2016=12.8 · 2017=11.8 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Rio Farms falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #133 safest of 175 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in California.

Rio Farms (415 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Rio Farms
Rio Farms (415 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Rio Farms 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 8.8 6.0 32 0 0
2023 4.3 3.6 17 1 0
2022 4.9 4.4 17 3 0
2021 8.9 7.0 34 3 0
2020 8.1 5.2 33 3 0
2019 7.3 6.1 29 7 1
2018 6.3 5.4 33 0 0
2017 11.8 5.6 63 0 0
2016 12.8 8.0 69 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · King City

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 · 31 employers in King City, 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 Neil Bassetti Farms, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Siri Produce Inc. (Jack) 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dan Avila & Sons - Farming 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TransGro 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vineyard Management 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE RCP-SALINAS 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE University Mechanical & Engineering Contractors 415 FTE
STATE-SIZE BD Biosciences 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGP FARM LABOR LLC 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farming 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvest 259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farming2 227 FTE
NAT-TCR Nunn Construction, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Coke Northeast - Bangor 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas Flat Glass Distributors, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR John C. Proctor Endowment 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teknor Apex Company - Rhode Island 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnesita Refractories 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Shipbuilding Allanton/Port St. Joe 415 FTE
NAT-SIZE MEM 415 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.