Strawberry farming · California

Rodriguez Farms, Inc.

Name: Rodriguez Farms, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Castroville, CA · ~27 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · September 26, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Rodriguez Farms, Inc. runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Rodriguez Farms, Inc.: 0.9 TCR = 20% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rodriguez Farms, Inc. safety composite

Rodriguez Farms, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

Rodriguez Farms, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Rodriguez Farms, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Castroville, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 20% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #12/124
PHOTO Norcal Harvesting, LLC
BOOK 8y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norcal Harvesting, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Farms

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0.9
Norcal Harvest

0.9
Willow Farms

0.9

What this shows Rodriguez Farms, Inc. averages 0.9 TCR (20% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Rodriguez Farms, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Rodriguez Farms, Inc. falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Rodriguez Farms, Inc. (27 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Rodriguez Farms, Inc. has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a lower 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
2024	0.0	0.0	0
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2022	0.0	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	7.2	7.2	2
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Castroville

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 30 employers in Castroville, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Norcal Harvesting, LLC	SALINAS, CA	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Willow Farms	OXNARD, CA	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Corporate Office	WATSONVILLE, CA	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Central Farms	OXNARD, CA	1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Attention to Detail Moving Company	CAMARILLO	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Van Ness Pool	LOS ANGELES	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sierra View Ranch	HILMAR	27 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ceres Benecia	BENECIA	27 FTE
CITY-NEAR	D&J Packing LLC PO Box 130 Castroville Ca 95012	Castroville	391 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ocean Mist Farms-Castroville	Castroville	171 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville	Castroville	145 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Del Llano Farms	Castroville	95 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sion Power Tucson Facility	Tucson, AZ	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Upt Okc	Oklahoma City, OK	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	3form	Salt Lake City, UT	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Vareika Construction, Inc.	West Bridgewater, MA	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Health Transport Partners Inc.	York, PA	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Reaco Battery Service Corporation	Johnston City, IL	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	3470 LLC	Austin, TX	27 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Logistics Mgmt and Engineering	Flint, MI	27 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.