Strawberry farming · California

Strawberry Harvest

Royal Oaks, CA · ~711 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Strawberry Harvest runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Strawberry Harvest: 1.5 TCR = 33% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Strawberry Harvest safety composite

Strawberry Harvest scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Strawberry Harvest: 1.1 → 1.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2021

Strawberry Harvest's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.1 in 2018 to 1.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Royal Oaks, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 33% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #24/124
  • PHOTO Ortega Berry Farms, …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~711 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ortega Berry Farms, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Strawberry Harvest in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Strawberry Harvest averages 1.5 TCR (33% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

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

Strawberry Harvest TCR series: 2018=1.1 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=1.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Strawberry Harvest falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 81% 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 #24 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

Strawberry Harvest (711 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 Strawberry Harvest
Strawberry Harvest (711 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Strawberry Harvest has more employees than the Strawberry farming median and a lower 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
2021 1.7 0.8 4 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 2 5 0
2019 0.9 0.9 3 0 0
2018 1.1 0.3 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Royal Oaks

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in Royal Oaks, 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 Ortega Berry Farms, LLC 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darensberries, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR OLD TOWN HARVESTING, INC 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shastina 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Palmdale 712 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sutter Valley Hospitals (30290) 714 FTE
STATE-SIZE 266 JOHN F KENNEDY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 708 FTE
STATE-SIZE District Attorney 708 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Mushrooms, LLC. 667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vasvision Berry Farms, LLC 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Falcon Trading Company, Inc. 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Classic Salads, LLC Watsonville 129 FTE
NAT-TCR Haywood Builders Supply 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tri State Electric, Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wyman Gordon : Princeton 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Person Area Transit System 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE CR Bard / BD 711 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wayne Fueling Systems 711 FTE
NAT-SIZE Werner Management/OMANE Terminal 711 FTE
NAT-SIZE Werner Enterprises/OMANE Terminal 711 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.