Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables · California

Stutz Packing

Indio, CA · ~58 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stutz Packing runs at 470% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade F.

Stutz Packing: 15.5 TCR = 470% of Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stutz Packing safety composite

Stutz Packing scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−5.2

2017→2024

Stutz Packing injury rate improved

Stutz Packing's TCR fell 5.2 from 5.3 in 2017 to 0.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 33.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.3 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=24.2 · 2020=30.9 · 2021=33.3 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=10.0 · 2024=0.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Indio, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.5 · 470% of ind

  • DART 0.1 DART
  • RANK #25/25
  • PHOTO Anderson House/Front…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Anderson House/Frontier Soups (0.3 TCR gap)

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Stutz Packing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stutz Packing averages 15.5 TCR (470% of the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Stutz Packing TCR series: 2017=5.3 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=24.2 · 2020=30.9 · 2021=33.3 · 2022=11.1 · 2023=10 · 2024=0.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Stutz Packing falls in its industry

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #25 safest of 25 Freeze-dried, food processing, employers in California.

Stutz Packing (58 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Stutz Packing
Stutz Packing (58 employees, TCR 15.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Stutz Packing has fewer employees than the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits an median and a higher 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
2024 0.1 0.1 12 0 0
2023 10.0 6.3 11 0 0
2022 11.1 2.2 10 0 0
2021 33.3 25.6 13 0 0
2020 30.9 14.3 13 0 0
2019 24.2 19.8 11 0 0
2018 9.2 6.9 4 0 0
2017 5.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · CA · Indio

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 85 employers in Indio, 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 Anderson House/Frontier Soups 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Idaho Pacific Corporation 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Idaho Pacific Colorado Corporation 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Star Processing, LLC 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE S & R Farm Labor Contractor 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE RANCHO DEL MAR, INC. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurel Labor Services 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Juan Briones 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 591 1,679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fantasy Springs Resort and Casino 1,269 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fantasy Springs Resort Casino 1,136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-067 917 FTE
NAT-TCR Pentagon Plumbing 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Crowne Plaza HY36 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambridge Court 15.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mechanical Construction & Consulting, Inc 15.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Handrail Design Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hindley 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Charlotte NC Yard 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartanburg SC Yard 58 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.