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

Sabor Farms

Salinas, CA · ~285 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Sabor Farms runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade C.

Sabor Farms: 4.6 TCR = 101% of Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable (except potato) and melon dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sabor Farms safety composite

Sabor Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Sabor Farms held a steady TCR band

Sabor Farms's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.3 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.3 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=3.0 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=6.2 · 2023=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.6 · 101% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #61/175
  • PHOTO Oceano Packing Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 101 inj
  • SIZE ~285 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oceano Packing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sabor Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sabor Farms averages 4.6 TCR (101% 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

Sabor Farms TCR series: 2017=3.3 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=3 · 2020=5.9 · 2021=6.2 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Sabor Farms falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and melon farming, v establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #61 safest of 175 Vegetable and melon farming, v employers in California.

Sabor Farms (285 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sabor Farms
Sabor Farms (285 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Sabor Farms has more employees than the Vegetable and melon farming, vegetable ( median and a lower 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
2023 3.5 3.3 11 2 0
2021 6.2 6.2 22 0 0
2020 5.9 5.9 23 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 12 0 0
2018 5.4 5.2 20 0 0
2017 3.3 2.5 13 0 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

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 · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 Oceano Packing Company 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coronation Peak Ranches, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moulton Farm 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BULLSEYE FARMS 18 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CDS 285 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal South Harvesting LLC 285 FTE
STATE-SIZE HACIENDA FARM SERVICES INC 285 FTE
STATE-SIZE KMV FARM LABOR INC 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Mountaineer 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa Gallery 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Breakthru Beverage Colorado 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR United Materials Boynton Beach 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #67 285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ggb, LLC 285 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkay Plumbing Products 285 FTE
NAT-SIZE DPW 285 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.