Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · California

Steinbeck Country Produce

Salinas, CA · ~28 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Steinbeck Country Produce runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade A.

Steinbeck Country Produce: 1.7 TCR = 38% of Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steinbeck Country Produce safety composite

Steinbeck Country Produce scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Steinbeck Country Produce: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Steinbeck Country Produce's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2019 to 4.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Salinas, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 38% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/175
  • PHOTO Pacific Tomato Growe…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Tomato Growers , Ltd. - Midway TN Farm (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steinbeck Country Produce in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Steinbeck Country Produce averages 1.7 TCR (38% of the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Steinbeck Country Produce TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Steinbeck Country Produce falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and potato farming, establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #12 safest of 175 Vegetable and potato farming, employers in California.

Steinbeck Country Produce (28 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 Steinbeck Country Produce
Steinbeck Country Produce (28 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Steinbeck Country Produce has fewer employees than the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable median and a lower 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
2023 4.2 0.0 0 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

331 Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants 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 Pacific Tomato Growers , Ltd. - Midway TN Farm 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR H&R HARVESTING LLC 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR David Peri Family Farms 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Davis Ranch L.L.C. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harlan Family Ranch 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE KKG Equipment Company, LLC32 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE KLM Ranches Inc 28 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 Pinnacle Exterior Construction 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MCR Cleveland Tenant LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Quincy Office Liquid Plant & Chemical 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Norfolk Iron and Metal - Kansas 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rock Valley Tool, LLC 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE F&F Transport 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southeast Unloading - Temple 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Tile Roofing, Inc 28 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.