Farm labor contractors · California

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc

Calexico, CA · ~282 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc: 5.4 TCR = 119% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc safety composite

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc: 2.7 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2018

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc's TCR rose 5.4 from 2.7 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Calexico, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 119% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #378/620
  • PHOTO 260_449
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~282 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 260_449 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc averages 5.4 TCR (119% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2018=8.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #378 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc (282 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc
Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc (282 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Sun Desert Harvesting, Inc has more employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2018 8.1 8.1 6 0 0
2017 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Calexico

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 42 employers in Calexico, 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 260_449 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reveille Farms LP 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR J.Rodriguez FLC Inc 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ROSA GONZALEZ 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE PENINSULA DIVISION SERVICE CEN 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cahill Contractors 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE Porto's Bakery Downey, Inc. 282 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aspire Bakeries - Van Nuys 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUNRISE PACKING INC 4,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prime Ag Services Inc. 3,283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jett Harvest Inc 1,978 FTE
CITY-NEAR El Don Farm Labor Contracting Inc. 1,300 FTE
NAT-TCR Metal Coaters of Georgia 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bakery Feeds Butler 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Camp Verde (Azcam) 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Panama City (Flpan) 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-MDT-HARRISBURG-PD 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cumberland Farms Store Support Center Offfices 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - CL 282 FTE
NAT-SIZE Naples (Flnap) 282 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: 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.