Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · California

Shafter

Shafter, CA · ~74 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shafter runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Shafter: 5.6 TCR = 256% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shafter safety composite

Shafter scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2017→2024

Shafter injury rate improved

Shafter's TCR fell 0.7 from 0.7 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2020=2.0 · 2021=12.3 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=14.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Shafter, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 256% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #108/136
  • PHOTO Pacific Topsoils, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Topsoils, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shafter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shafter averages 5.6 TCR (256% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Shafter TCR series: 2017=0.7 · 2018=0 · 2020=2 · 2021=12.3 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=14.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Shafter falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #108 safest of 136 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in California.

Shafter (74 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shafter
Shafter (74 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Shafter has more employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 14.5 10.6 11 0 0
2022 9.8 3.3 6 0 0
2021 12.3 6.1 6 0 0
2020 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · CA · Shafter

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 66 employers in Shafter, 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 Pacific Topsoils, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRSST - Central Garden Retail Merchandising 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agriland FS - Underwood 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Spirit Lake 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apricot Lane Farms 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central California Almond Growers (Kerman) 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Jesus Garcia Jr 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL2 1,819 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0593 - Shafter CA DC 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Valley Distribution Center CVDC 1,395 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0593 - Bakersfield DC 1,179 FTE
NAT-TCR Topeka Presbyterian Manor 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR REACH Community Development 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Layton LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Daniels Sharpsmart Inc - Cleveland 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Verde Industries 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monmouth Crossing 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Joy 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE BrandSafway LLC - Covestro Chemical - Baytown 74 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, 2021, 2020, 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.