Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production · California

STS Ranch LLC

Livingston, CA · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

STS Ranch LLC runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production workplace, earning a grade C.

STS Ranch LLC: 4.8 TCR = 106% of Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

STS Ranch LLC safety composite

STS Ranch LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

STS Ranch LLC: 2.7 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2024

STS Ranch LLC's TCR rose 3.0 from 2.7 in 2017 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Livingston, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.8 · 106% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #13/24
  • PHOTO Walther Farms SC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Walther Farms SC (0.0 TCR gap)

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STS Ranch LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows STS Ranch LLC averages 4.8 TCR (106% of the Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production BLS benchmark).

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

STS Ranch LLC TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 4.5

Where STS Ranch LLC falls in its industry

153 Sweet potato farming, field an establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 24 Sweet potato farming, field an employers in California.

STS Ranch LLC (81 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate STS Ranch LLC
STS Ranch LLC (81 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

STS Ranch LLC has more employees than the Sweet potato farming, field and seed pot median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 5.7 1.9 2 1 0
2023 5.8 2.3 5 0 0
2017 2.7 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · CA · Livingston

153 Sweet potato farming, field and seed potato production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 32 employers in Livingston, 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 Walther Farms SC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms Rhodesdale 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wayne Bailey Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Black Gold Farms - INW 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allied Potato Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE C. R CRAIN AND SONS, INC 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miramar 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bidart Dairy II LLC 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livingston 1,823 FTE
CITY-NEAR Livingston Deli 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR E&J Gallo Livingston 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR E&J Gallo Winery 319 FTE
NAT-TCR Gottlieb Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Westside Garden Plaza 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Heights 10164 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR JDS Industries 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hearne TX Truss 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Negra - Grand Island 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Craig Transportation Co. 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fickling Brothers, Inc 81 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.