Fruit and tree nut combination farming · California

Smith Ranch

Live Oak, CA · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith Ranch runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruit and tree nut combination farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Smith Ranch: 8.7 TCR = 194% of Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Ranch safety composite

Smith Ranch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.1

2017→2024

Smith Ranch injury rate improved

Smith Ranch's TCR fell 2.1 from 9.8 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.8 · 2024=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111336 · Live Oak, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 194% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #36/48
  • PHOTO Cherryfield Foods in…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherryfield Foods inc - Farm division (0.3 TCR gap)

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Smith Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith Ranch averages 8.7 TCR (194% of the Fruit and tree nut combination farming BLS benchmark).

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

Smith Ranch TCR series: 2017=9.8 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Smith Ranch falls in its industry

65 Fruit and tree nut combination establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 48 Fruit and tree nut combination employers in California.

Smith Ranch (41 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith Ranch
Smith Ranch (41 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Smith Ranch has fewer employees than the Fruit and tree nut combination farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 7.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 9.8 9.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111336 · CA · Live Oak

65 Fruit and tree nut combination farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 7 employers in Live Oak, 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 Cherryfield Foods inc - Farm division 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henderson Farms Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WA Farm Mgmt LLC 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR A. SAMBADO & SON INC 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ORGANIC FARMING ADMINISTRATION 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Lindsay 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | IEW Enterprise 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Jackson Farms, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coe Orchard Equipment, Inc. 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Oak Plant 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR All-American Construction, Inc. 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lomo Cold Storage 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn & Suites Orlando FL 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Laplata Md 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pierce Pacific Manufacturing 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hansen Farms, LLC. 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westgate Assisted Living 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Emergency Clinic Alamo Heights 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pensacola, FL - Advanced Technology Recycling 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Posty Cards 41 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, 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.