Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production · California

Sea Mist Farms

Castroville, CA · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sea Mist Farms runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production workplace, earning a grade B.

Sea Mist Farms: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sea Mist Farms safety composite

Sea Mist Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sea Mist Farms: 3.7 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2022

Sea Mist Farms's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.7 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111150 · Castroville, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK P48
  • PHOTO Kreher Enterprises LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kreher Enterprises LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sea Mist Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sea Mist Farms averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Sea Mist Farms TCR series: 2017=3.7 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=1.4 · 2020=4.6 · 2022=5.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Sea Mist Farms falls in its industry

33 Corn farming (except sweet cor establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sea Mist Farms (54 employees, TCR 3.5) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 23 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sea Mist Farms
Sea Mist Farms (54 employees, TCR 3.5) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Sea Mist Farms has more employees than the Corn farming (except sweet corn), field 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
2022 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2020 4.6 3.1 3 0 0
2019 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2018 2.6 2.6 4 0 0
2017 3.7 3.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111150 · CA · Castroville

33 Corn farming (except sweet corn), field and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 30 employers in Castroville, 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 Kreher Enterprises LLC 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beck's El Paso 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beck's Neoga 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Farmers Cooperative (Afton) 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harold E. Robben, Jr. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Maria Perez 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pauma Valley 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE DURLING NURSERY, INC. 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR D&J Packing LLC PO Box 130 Castroville Ca 95012 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Mist Farms-Castroville 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Mist Farms - Castroville 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Del Llano Farms 95 FTE
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0747 Indiana Packers Corporation 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0360 Pilgrim's Corp- Nacogdoches 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tube Fab/Roman Engineering 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR HG686 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Compass Equipment Services of Nevada, LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE BM5 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oil City Plant 2 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan Timber & Truss 54 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.