Beet sugar refining · California

Spreckels Sugar

Brawley, CA · ~262 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Spreckels Sugar runs at 145% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beet sugar refining workplace, earning a grade D.

Spreckels Sugar: 6.1 TCR = 145% of Beet sugar refining BLS 4.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spreckels Sugar safety composite

Spreckels Sugar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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 Sugar: 7.7 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.6× in 2024

Spreckels Sugar's TCR rose 2.0 from 7.7 in 2017 to 9.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311313 · Brawley, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 145% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK P41
  • PHOTO Minn-Dak Farmers Coo…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 116 inj
  • SIZE ~262 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

Spreckels Sugar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spreckels Sugar averages 6.1 TCR (145% of the Beet sugar refining BLS benchmark).

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

Spreckels Sugar TCR series: 2017=7.7 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=3.2 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=11.6 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 4.2

Where Spreckels Sugar falls in its industry

44 Beet sugar refining establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Spreckels Sugar (262 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Spreckels Sugar
Spreckels Sugar (262 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Spreckels Sugar has more employees than the Beet sugar refining median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 9.7 9.7 26 0 0
2023 11.6 11.6 27 0 0
2022 4.2 4.2 10 0 0
2021 5.5 4.6 11 2 0
2020 3.7 3.7 9 0 0
2019 3.2 3.2 8 0 0
2018 3.2 2.8 7 1 0
2017 7.7 7.7 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311313 · CA · Brawley

44 Beet sugar refining employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 47 employers in Brawley, 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 Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schafer Gear Works - Roscoe 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Amalgamated Sugar Company, LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sweetener Products Company 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ballico 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 221 FIGUEROA 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vintage Design LLC 262 FTE
STATE-SIZE FERNANDOS 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 355 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR One World Beef Packers LLC 901 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District 866 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sonia Corina, Inc. 835 FTE
NAT-TCR Ingram Readymix, Inc. - Pearland #35 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Tacoma Distribution Center 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Monadnock Mountain Spring Water 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ecumen Pathstone Living 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE UT11 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE James J. Anderson Construction Co., Inc & Riverside Materials, Inc. 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maricopa County - Assessor (120) 262 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trinty Rail 262 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, 2019, 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.