Vegetables, machine harvesting · California

Salinas Yard

Salinas, CA · ~1,910 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Salinas Yard runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetables, machine harvesting workplace, earning a grade D.

Salinas Yard: 6.6 TCR = 146% of Vegetables, machine harvesting BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Salinas Yard safety composite

Salinas Yard scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−3.5

2018→2021

Salinas Yard injury rate improved

Salinas Yard's TCR fell 3.5 from 8.3 in 2018 to 4.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.3 · 2021=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115113 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 146% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #18/25
  • PHOTO Berrybrook
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~1,910 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berrybrook (0.3 TCR gap)

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Salinas Yard in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Salinas Yard averages 6.6 TCR (146% of the Vegetables, machine harvesting BLS benchmark).

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

Salinas Yard TCR series: 2018=8.3 · 2021=4.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Salinas Yard falls in its industry

34 Vegetables, machine harvesting establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 25 Vegetables, machine harvesting employers in California.

Salinas Yard (1,910 employees, TCR 6.6) among 21 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.1 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 22 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Salinas Yard
Salinas Yard (1,910 employees, TCR 6.6) among 21 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Salinas Yard has more employees than the Vegetables, machine harvesting median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2021 4.8 2.2 11 0 0
2018 8.3 5.3 27 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115113 · CA · Salinas

34 Vegetables, machine harvesting 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 Berrybrook 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olam Spices Hanford 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR California Sun Grower Services - South 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Ag LLC - Eastern Business Unit 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE OLYMPIC (CAOLY) 1,911 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Marine Services 1,913 FTE
STATE-SIZE RNJ Harvesting Inc 1,906 FTE
STATE-SIZE CERRITOS HUB (CACER) 1,916 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 LP Cambridge, LLC--Mallard Bay 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Missouri Meerschaum Company 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Bragg Food Service 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Geisinger Community Medical Center 1,910 FTE
NAT-SIZE Health First Medical Group 1,910 FTE
NAT-SIZE Okokl - Oklahoma City Hub 1,909 FTE
NAT-SIZE BWI-INFLIGHT 1,909 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: 2021, 2018. 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.