Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing · California

Ruiz Foods Products

Dinuba, CA · ~1,593 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ruiz Foods Products runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Ruiz Foods Products: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ruiz Foods Products safety composite

Ruiz Foods Products scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2017→2018

Ruiz Foods Products injury rate improved

Ruiz Foods Products's TCR fell 0.8 from 4.6 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.6 · 2018=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311412 · Dinuba, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #16/27
  • PHOTO San Jose Manufacturi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~1,593 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Jose Manufacturing Facility - KNA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ruiz Foods Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ruiz Foods Products averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ruiz Foods Products TCR series: 2017=4.6 · 2018=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Ruiz Foods Products falls in its industry

274 Mexican foods, frozen, manufac establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

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 27 Mexican foods, frozen, manufac employers in California.

Ruiz Foods Products (1,593 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ruiz Foods Products
Ruiz Foods Products (1,593 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 201 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Ruiz Foods Products has more employees than the Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 3.8 3.0 20 40 0
2017 4.6 3.0 32 39 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311412 · CA · Dinuba

274 Mexican foods, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 44 employers in Dinuba, 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 San Jose Manufacturing Facility - KNA 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uno Foods, INc 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marzetti Frozen Pasta - Altoona 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creative Specialty Food Solutions- Yale 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hall Management Group, Inc 1,596 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon Transportation Services : LGB5 1,589 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6403-64030332 1,589 FTE
STATE-SIZE Natividad 1,588 FTE
CITY-NEAR RNJ Harvesting Inc 1,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aaron Ruiz 1,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prima Wawona - South Ranches 662 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5394 454 FTE
NAT-TCR Denver Brick Plant 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Columbus Oh - Eww (Ohcbs) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bemidji (Mnbem) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Rome (Garom) 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnston Health 1,593 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pellissippi State Community College 1,593 FTE
NAT-SIZE IES Residential, Inc. 1,593 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Medical Center of Aurora 1,593 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.