Strawberry farming · California

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc

Camarillo, CA · ~152 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc: 5.1 TCR = 113% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc safety composite

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc: 5.2 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2024

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc's TCR rose 2.3 from 5.2 in 2021 to 7.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Camarillo, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.1 · 113% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #73/124
  • PHOTO 884_2353
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 884_2353 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc averages 5.1 TCR (113% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc TCR series: 2021=5.2 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #73 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc (152 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc
Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc (152 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Lompoc 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
2024 7.4 7.4 22 0 0
2023 2.7 2.7 6 0 0
2021 5.2 5.2 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Camarillo

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 158 employers in Camarillo, 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 884_2353 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Ranch 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR E A & T 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GULL ISLAND FARMS 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bristol Farms La Cumbre 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2643-64030194-194001 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roseville Distribution Center - 49 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Victorville Operations 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-09 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 558 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California State University Channel Islands 1,552 FTE
CITY-NEAR Channel Islands Social Services 1,488 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1725 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Millersburg 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ambassador Sanitation Management @ Pilgrim's Pride Elberton 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Glunt Industries Plant 1 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Haumiller Engineering 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1665 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westminster Village Dover 152 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nations Photo Lab 152 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, 2021. 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.