Strawberry farming · California

River Ranch

Lompoc, CA · ~303 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

River Ranch runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade C.

River Ranch: 5.1 TCR = 113% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

River Ranch safety composite

River Ranch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 24%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

River Ranch: 4.0 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2018

River Ranch's TCR rose 2.2 from 4.0 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Lompoc, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 113% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #75/124
  • PHOTO Sorrento Berry Farms…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~303 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc (0.0 TCR gap)

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River Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows River Ranch averages 5.1 TCR (113% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

River Ranch TCR series: 2017=4 · 2018=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where River Ranch falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #75 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

River Ranch (303 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 River Ranch
River Ranch (303 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

River Ranch has more employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher 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
2018 6.2 4.6 8 0 0
2017 4.0 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Lompoc

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 39 employers in Lompoc, 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 Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 884_2353 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR E A & T 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GULL ISLAND FARMS 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fullerton, CA factory 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bell Brothers Heating and Air, Inc 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lodi DC 303 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yuba County Packard Building 303 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Lompoc 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1989 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1989 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Floradale 225 FTE
NAT-TCR Ernst Enterprises of GA Lithonia 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR South West Staffing 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Renaissance Center 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR TransPak- Austin 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Excelsior Springs Hospital 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE Middleburg Legacy Place 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE JLL Corporate Office - Pittsburgh PA 303 FTE
NAT-SIZE KPS Global Fort Worth 303 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: 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.