Strawberry farming · California

Spring Harvest Berry Farms

Santa Maria, CA · ~113 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spring Harvest Berry Farms runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Spring Harvest Berry Farms: 8.2 TCR = 181% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spring Harvest Berry Farms safety composite

Spring Harvest Berry Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.0

2017→2019

Spring Harvest Berry Farms injury rate improved

Spring Harvest Berry Farms's TCR fell 5.0 from 11.4 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.4 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 181% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #99/124
  • PHOTO Dover, FL
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dover, FL (0.1 TCR gap)

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Spring Harvest Berry Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spring Harvest Berry Farms averages 8.2 TCR (181% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Spring Harvest Berry Farms TCR series: 2017=11.4 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Spring Harvest Berry Farms falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #99 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Spring Harvest Berry Farms (113 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 Spring Harvest Berry Farms
Spring Harvest Berry Farms (113 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Spring Harvest Berry Farms 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
2019 6.5 6.5 6 0 0
2018 6.6 5.6 7 0 0
2017 11.4 10.6 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Santa Maria

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 Dover, FL 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aquistapache Ranch 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saticoy Berry Farms, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corralitos Nursery 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0252 North Hollywood 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0067 San Mateo 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0044 Granada Hills 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trader Joe's 0250 Los Angeles, CA 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0020 2526 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Care Nursing and Rehab 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Works Commercial Roofing, Inc. 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Fryburg Door 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lake Zurich, IL 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1215 E. Fort Ave. Ste 103 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-Swy 0035 0107 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marsden Northeast, L.L.C. 113 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: 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.