Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · California

Santa Paula Plant #3

Santa Paula, CA · ~99 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Paula Plant #3 runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade B.

Santa Paula Plant #3: 2.5 TCR = 56% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Paula Plant #3 safety composite

Santa Paula Plant #3 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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)
C 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Santa Paula Plant #3: 0.9 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2020

Santa Paula Plant #3's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.9 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Santa Paula, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 56% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #51/236
  • PHOTO NeCo Seed Farms, Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NeCo Seed Farms, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Santa Paula Plant #3 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Paula Plant #3 averages 2.5 TCR (56% of the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Santa Paula Plant #3 TCR series: 2017=0.9 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Santa Paula Plant #3 falls in its industry

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 236 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in California.

Santa Paula Plant #3 (99 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Santa Paula Plant #3
Santa Paula Plant #3 (99 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Santa Paula Plant #3 has more employees than the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2020 3.7 3.7 4 0 0
2019 2.5 2.5 3 0 0
2018 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2017 0.9 0.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Santa Paula

666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 45 employers in Santa Paula, 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 NeCo Seed Farms, Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birdsong Fudge Buying Point 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ocean Spray Carver Receiving Station 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Worthington - US - Production 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE MARIA ELENA RUIZ MORALES 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Verne Nursery, Inc. 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Sun Grower Services - North 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE BERUMEN'S FARM LABOR SERVICES, INC. 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 203 2,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hot Line Construction Santa Paula 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR TLF 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR SantaPaulaHospital 173 FTE
NAT-TCR WW4 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Talon - Sauk Rapids 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid South Fabrication & Coating 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowles Mechanical Inc. dba Environmental Services of Charlotte 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlile Transportation Systems, LLC - Tacoma Terminal 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE St James Behavioral Health Hospital 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Foam Plastics ELP 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hillside Center DE 99 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: 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.