Fruit sorting, grading, and packing · California
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse
Exeter, CA · ~164 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 8.8
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruit sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade D.
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse: 8.8 TCR = 195% of Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse safety composite
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).
18/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 8.78 per 100 workers
Safer than 12% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 11.7 per 100 workers
Safer than 2% 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
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse: 9.7 → 11.7 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 11.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2024
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse's TCR rose 2.0 from 9.7 in 2018 to 11.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 115114 · Exeter, CA ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade D · TCR 8.8 · 195% of ind
- DART 11.7 DART
- RANK #183/236
- PHOTO INDHEMP
- BOOK 7y book
- INJ 104 inj
- SIZE ~164 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: INDHEMP (0.0 TCR gap)
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Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse
8.8 TCR
- INDHEMP
INDHEMP
8.8 TCR
- Babcock, WI Re
Babcock, WI Receiving Station
8.8 TCR
- Walters Produc
Walters Produce Inc.
8.7 TCR
- Stemilt Grower
Stemilt Growers, LLC. - Olds Station
8.7 TCR
What this shows Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse averages 8.8 TCR (195% of the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse TCR series: 2018=9.7 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=9.5 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=11.7 · BLS 4.5
Where Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse falls in its industry
666 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa establishmentsSafer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.
Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #183 safest of 236 Fruit sorting, grading, and pa employers in California.
Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse has more employees than the Fruit sorting, grading, and packing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 | 11.7 | 11.7 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 9.8 | 8.0 | 16 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 8.2 | 5.0 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 9.5 | 7.0 | 18 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 9.7 | 7.6 | 18 | 1 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
115114 · CA · Exeter
666 Fruit sorting, grading, and packing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 26 employers in Exeter, 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 | INDHEMP | 8.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Babcock, WI Receiving Station | 8.8 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Walters Produce Inc. | 8.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Stemilt Growers, LLC. - Olds Station | 8.7 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Cottonwood | 164 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | GloriAnn Farms Brawley | 164 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | West Coast Packing, Inc. | 164 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Faith Farming, LP | 164 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Gutierrez FLC Inc | 1,259 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Exeter - F031 | 330 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | farm labor | 218 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BAKING CO | 214 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Jifram | 8.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | New Haven 088 | 8.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Manufacturing | 8.8 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Des Moines 137 | 8.8 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Hill's Pet Nutrition Inc., Bowling Green Facility | 164 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Allen | 164 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | State's Attorney's Office | 164 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | AJ Johns | 164 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.