Strawberry farming · California

Snelling Nursery

Ballico, CA · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Snelling Nursery runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Snelling Nursery: 6.0 TCR = 134% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Snelling Nursery safety composite

Snelling Nursery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Snelling Nursery: 8.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2023

Snelling Nursery's TCR rose 0.4 from 8.0 in 2019 to 8.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Ballico, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 134% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #80/124
  • PHOTO Catalinos Berry Farm…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Catalinos Berry Farms, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Snelling Nursery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Snelling Nursery averages 6.0 TCR (134% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Snelling Nursery TCR series: 2019=8 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=8.7 · 2023=8.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Snelling Nursery falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #80 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Snelling Nursery (39 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Snelling Nursery
Snelling Nursery (39 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Snelling Nursery has fewer employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2023 8.4 5.6 2 1 0
2022 8.7 8.7 3 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2020 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 8.0 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Ballico

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in Ballico, 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 Catalinos Berry Farms, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PACIFICO BERRY FARMS 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colorado Farms LLC. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Bluff Nursery 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Star Roses and Plants Dinuba 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Warren Knox Roofing 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2758 Via Orange Way 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Luxury Flush LLC 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ballico 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR LE - 03 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Ranch 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Ranch Inc. - Turlock Rd. 144 FTE
NAT-TCR Dupont Building, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR National Material Processing LLC - POI 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassus Greater New Jersey 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mitsui Kinzoku Catalysts America Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE SKF Solution Factory - Cleveland 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cryden 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE John E. Quarles Co 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gaston Brothers Utilities, LLC 39 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.