Nursery stock growing · California

Suncrest Nurseries Inc.

Watsonville, CA · ~116 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Suncrest Nurseries Inc. runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade D.

Suncrest Nurseries Inc.: 5.6 TCR = 125% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Suncrest Nurseries Inc. safety composite

Suncrest Nurseries Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

Suncrest Nurseries Inc. held a steady TCR band

Suncrest Nurseries Inc.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 4.3 in 2019 to 4.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.3 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 125% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #68/120
  • PHOTO GOLDCOAST FARMS L.L.C
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GOLDCOAST FARMS L.L.C (0.0 TCR gap)

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Suncrest Nurseries Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Suncrest Nurseries Inc. averages 5.6 TCR (125% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Suncrest Nurseries Inc. TCR series: 2019=4.3 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Suncrest Nurseries Inc. falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

Suncrest Nurseries Inc. (116 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Suncrest Nurseries Inc.
Suncrest Nurseries Inc. (116 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Suncrest Nurseries Inc. has more employees than the Nursery stock growing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2022 4.2 4.2 4 0 0
2021 7.5 6.4 7 0 0
2020 6.5 6.5 6 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Watsonville

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 GOLDCOAST FARMS L.L.C 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adams County Nursery Inc 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR David's Nursery LLC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olson's Greenhouse of Colorado, LLC 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE TVH 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miller Family Wine Company 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monarch Nut Company 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE SunTreat 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0701 JBS USA - Tolleson 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Village Health Care at The Glen 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR EX Care - Hazard 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0045-0045-08277 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waibel Energy Systems, Inc. 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-ORF-NORFOLK-ORF-PDMT 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-ROA-ROANOKE-ROA-PDMT 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 0104 Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. - Crete 116 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.