Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming · California

Scarborough Farms

Oxnard, CA · ~172 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Scarborough Farms runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Scarborough Farms: 9.1 TCR = 202% of Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scarborough Farms safety composite

Scarborough Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Scarborough Farms: 4.4 → 13.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.52× in 2018

Scarborough Farms's TCR rose 9.5 from 4.4 in 2017 to 13.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 202% of ind

  • DART 13.8 DART
  • RANK #152/175
  • PHOTO ATI Ag Services, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~172 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ATI Ag Services, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Scarborough Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Scarborough Farms averages 9.1 TCR (202% of the Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming BLS benchmark).

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

Scarborough Farms TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=13.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Scarborough Farms falls in its industry

331 Other Vegetable (except Potato establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #152 safest of 175 Other Vegetable (except Potato employers in California.

Scarborough Farms (172 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 Scarborough Farms
Scarborough Farms (172 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Scarborough Farms has more employees than the Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melo median and a higher 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
2018 13.8 13.8 22 0 0
2017 4.4 1.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Oxnard

331 Other Vegetable (except Potato) and Melon Farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 303 employers in Oxnard, 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 ATI Ag Services, LLC 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farming 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ocean Mist Farms-Farming 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Herndon Farms 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Berries 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mesa Harvesting Company 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sierra Pacific Industries Forestry 172 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Coast Const/Field Serv - Bld: 6592 - 01 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OXR1 2,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Oxnard 1,753 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030383 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Regional Medical Center 1,352 FTE
NAT-TCR IO - Richmond 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR SA 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum America SCS 997 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Abilene (Txabi) 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Firestone Polymers Orange Plant 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Children's Square U.S.A. 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chattanooga Mill 172 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ann Arbor Marriott Ypsilanti 172 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.