Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production · California

Spreckels

Salinas, CA · ~120 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spreckels runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

Spreckels: 6.3 TCR = 139% of Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spreckels safety composite

Spreckels scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Spreckels: 5.6 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 1264.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2021

Spreckels's TCR rose 0.7 from 5.6 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1264.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 139% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #98/175
  • PHOTO T&A - Yuma - Harvest
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~120 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T&A - Yuma - Harvest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spreckels in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spreckels averages 6.3 TCR (139% of the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Spreckels TCR series: 2017=5.6 · 2019=1264.9 · 2020=7 · 2021=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Spreckels falls in its industry

331 Lettuce farming, field, beddin establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #98 safest of 175 Lettuce farming, field, beddin employers in California.

Spreckels (120 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Spreckels
Spreckels (120 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Spreckels has more employees than the Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant an median and a higher 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 6.2 3.9 8 0 0
2020 7.0 5.2 8 0 0
2019 1264.9 983.8 9 0 0
2017 5.6 4.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

331 Lettuce farming, field, bedding plant and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 T&A - Yuma - Harvest 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DiMare Ruskin, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Vista Farms LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR T&A - Salinas - Harvest 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE VF - Healdsburg 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ito Brothers Inc. 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Citrus 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Novavine Inc 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Children's Village 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Stamford Hotel 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TLSTX - San Antonio 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bethlehem Shared Services 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suderman Contract Stevedores, Inc. - Galveston 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE Promises Corporate Office 120 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSG USA, Inc. Bensenville, IL Factory 120 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, 2019, 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.