Farm labor contractors · California

Sarc, Inc.

Nipomo, CA · ~345 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Sarc, Inc. runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Sarc, Inc.: 5.7 TCR = 126% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sarc, Inc. safety composite

Sarc, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 49% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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

−5.3

2017→2024

Sarc, Inc. injury rate improved

Sarc, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.3 from 9.1 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=6.7 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Nipomo, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 126% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #394/620
  • PHOTO Gerardo Cuevas
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 94 inj
  • SIZE ~345 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gerardo Cuevas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sarc, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sarc, Inc. averages 5.7 TCR (126% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sarc, Inc. TCR series: 2017=9.1 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=6.7 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Sarc, Inc. falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #394 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Sarc, Inc. (345 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sarc, Inc.
Sarc, Inc. (345 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Sarc, Inc. has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 3.8 2.2 10 2 0
2023 6.8 5.6 24 5 0
2022 5.6 3.1 17 8 1
2020 6.7 6.4 14 6 0
2019 1.5 1.5 4 0 0
2018 6.3 5.4 14 0 0
2017 9.1 6.3 11 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Nipomo

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in Nipomo, 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 Gerardo Cuevas 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Silvia Perez Torres 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Houweling's 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNDERWOOD FAMILY FARMS LP 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Triton Construction 345 FTE
STATE-SIZE Escalon Premier Brand 345 FTE
STATE-SIZE KNT Manufacturing 345 FTE
STATE-SIZE Temecula 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buenaventura Ranch, LLC 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR WE LOVE BERRIES LLC 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cal South Harvesting LLC 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Castaneda & Sons, Inc. 253 FTE
NAT-TCR Faribault Live Haul 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kls Kichler Pa 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Del Sol Medical Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bergen Pipe Supports 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rosenberg 345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Liberty Civil Construction,LLC 345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoughton Hospital Association 345 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alfa Laval Inc. Broken Arrow (loc code: ALACEC) 345 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, 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.