Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing · California

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock

Turlock, CA · ~280 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock: 4.5 TCR = 138% of Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock safety composite

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock: 3.6 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2021

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.6 in 2017 to 5.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Turlock, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 138% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #9/25
  • PHOTO Vita-Pakt Citrus Pro…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vita-Pakt Citrus Products Co. (Fresno) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock averages 4.5 TCR (138% of the Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock TCR series: 2017=3.6 · 2018=3.5 · 2020=5.4 · 2021=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock falls in its industry

123 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrat establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #9 safest of 25 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrat employers in California.

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock (280 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock
Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock (280 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Sensient Natural Ingredients, Turlock has more employees than the Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manuf median and a lower 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
2021 5.7 5.2 13 0 0
2020 5.4 4.5 11 1 0
2018 3.5 2.7 7 2 0
2017 3.6 3.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · CA · Turlock

123 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 171 employers in Turlock, 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 Vita-Pakt Citrus Products Co. (Fresno) 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oregon Potato Company 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WHS 330 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blackfoot Plant 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm Labor Contractor 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&G FARMING, INC. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Calpine Geysers 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernards Builders 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-027 1,079 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-209 911 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MCE1 897 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 349 779 FTE
NAT-TCR Scepter Inc.- Waverly Operations 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CT River Academy 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Shipyard & Fabrication 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dalbo, MN 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beckett 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yakima Valley School 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pinnacle Services Inc 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake City Community Hospital 280 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, 2020, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.