Planting crops · California

Spruce Farms, LLC

Brawley, CA · ~20 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spruce Farms, LLC runs at 115% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Planting crops workplace, earning a grade C.

Spruce Farms, LLC: 5.2 TCR = 115% of Planting crops BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spruce Farms, LLC safety composite

Spruce Farms, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−219.3

2017→2021

Spruce Farms, LLC injury rate improved

Spruce Farms, LLC's TCR fell 219.3 from 219.3 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 219.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=219.3 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=12.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115112 · Brawley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 115% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #44/86
  • PHOTO Menno
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Menno (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spruce Farms, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spruce Farms, LLC averages 5.2 TCR (115% of the Planting crops BLS benchmark).

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

Spruce Farms, LLC TCR series: 2017=219.3 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=12 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Spruce Farms, LLC falls in its industry

221 Planting crops establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #44 safest of 86 Planting crops employers in California.

Spruce Farms, LLC (20 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Spruce Farms, LLC
Spruce Farms, LLC (20 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Spruce Farms, LLC has fewer employees than the Planting crops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 12.0 12.0 1 1 0
2019 4.8 0.0 0 1 0
2018 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 219.3 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115112 · CA · Brawley

221 Planting crops 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 Menno 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Othello 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 007 Cottage Grove Agronomy 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 764 Osseo Agronomy 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 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 CSR Princess Street 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Raulli and Sons 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Richland Transport, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AMO Enterprises- Kenazo 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Swg Winnemucca District Office 0026-Fac 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alyan Pump 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Plainfield, NJ 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manhattan / NYC Fairfield Inn & Suites 20 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, 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.