Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing · California

River Ridge Farms

Oxnard, CA · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

River Ridge Farms runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing workplace, earning a grade D.

River Ridge Farms: 8.3 TCR = 184% of Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

River Ridge Farms safety composite

River Ridge Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 Ridge Farms: 2.8 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2018

River Ridge Farms's TCR rose 11.0 from 2.8 in 2017 to 13.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Oxnard, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 184% of ind

  • DART 7.9 DART
  • RANK #16/33
  • PHOTO Teufel Holly Farms
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Teufel Holly Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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River Ridge Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows River Ridge Farms averages 8.3 TCR (184% of the Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing BLS benchmark).

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

River Ridge Farms TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=13.8 · BLS 4.5

Where River Ridge Farms falls in its industry

166 Plant, potted flower and folia establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #16 safest of 33 Plant, potted flower and folia employers in California.

River Ridge Farms (110 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate River Ridge Farms
River Ridge Farms (110 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

River Ridge Farms has more employees than the Plant, potted flower and foliage, growin 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
2018 13.8 7.9 13 1 0
2017 2.8 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · CA · Oxnard

166 Plant, potted flower and foliage, growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 303 employers in Oxnard, 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 Teufel Holly Farms 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fessler Nursery Company 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nishi Quality Flowers 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawksridge Farms, Inc 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Queen Victoria Farms, LP 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE GH Dairy - California 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Braga Ranch, Inc. Soledad 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michael Wolf Vineyard Services, Inc. 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OXR1 2,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Oxnard 1,753 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030383 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Regional Medical Center 1,352 FTE
NAT-TCR Swan Island Center (Orpon) 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland (Tncle) 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 37-Milwaukee 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Mary's Hospital & Clinics 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Plainville Community Schools Middle School of Plainville 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mercy Medical Group, Inc 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE MSF Electric, Inc. North Carolina 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dakkota Louisville BGA Plant 110 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.

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

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