Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · California

Salinas

Salinas, CA · ~647 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Salinas runs at 279% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Salinas: 6.1 TCR = 279% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Salinas safety composite

Salinas scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 26% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−2.8

2017→2024

Salinas injury rate improved

Salinas's TCR fell 2.8 from 7.9 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.9 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=9.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 279% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #113/136
  • PHOTO Rutherford-Eagleville
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 382 inj
  • SIZE ~647 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rutherford-Eagleville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Salinas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Salinas averages 6.1 TCR (279% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Salinas TCR series: 2017=7.9 · 2018=8.1 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=6.6 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=9 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Salinas falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #113 safest of 136 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in California.

Salinas (647 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Salinas
Salinas (647 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Salinas has more employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 5.1 4.1 5 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.0 4.4 76 0 0
2021 4.3 3.2 44 0 0
2020 6.6 5.0 68 0 1
2019 8.2 6.8 75 0 0
2018 8.1 7.3 10 0 0
2017 7.9 6.0 104 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · CA · Salinas

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers 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 Rutherford-Eagleville 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Waco 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SureCrop Farm Services 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Lawrence 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coastal Vineyard Care Associates 647 FTE
STATE-SIZE HYVE Fremont Manu 647 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Anaheim, Police Department Main Station 647 FTE
STATE-SIZE DPR Construction - Corporate Services 648 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 1891 - Conway 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City Shop KS FXFE-KCYS 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR S04180 - SD Sioux Falls 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St Josephs - Rehabilitation 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alliance RV, LLC 647 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - PHL5 647 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goya Foods Jersey City 647 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jack Daniel Bottling 647 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.