Tomato farming, grown under cover · California

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc

Tehachapi, CA · ~206 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc runs at 366% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tomato farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade F.

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc: 16.5 TCR = 366% of Tomato farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc safety composite

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc: 10.3 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 26.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.12× in 2019

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc's TCR rose 2.4 from 10.3 in 2017 to 12.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 26.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111419 · Tehachapi, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.5 · 366% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #19/19
  • PHOTO Bushel Boy Farms, LLP
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 159 inj
  • SIZE ~206 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bushel Boy Farms, LLP (0.4 TCR gap)

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SunSelect Produce (California) Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SunSelect Produce (California) Inc averages 16.5 TCR (366% of the Tomato farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).

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

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc TCR series: 2017=10.3 · 2018=26.5 · 2019=12.7 · BLS 4.5

Where SunSelect Produce (California) Inc falls in its industry

251 Tomato farming, grown under co establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #19 safest of 19 Tomato farming, grown under co employers in California.

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc (206 employees, TCR 16.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SunSelect Produce (California) Inc
SunSelect Produce (California) Inc (206 employees, TCR 16.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.9

SunSelect Produce (California) Inc has more employees than the Tomato farming, grown under cover 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
2019 12.7 2.1 36 1 0
2018 26.5 9.4 53 20 0
2017 10.3 6.0 70 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111419 · CA · Tehachapi

251 Tomato farming, grown under cover employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 26 employers in Tehachapi, 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 Bushel Boy Farms, LLP 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGW, LLC 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fluresh Adrian 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Backyard Farms LLC 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wiebe Farms, Inc. 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE agf management inc 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHICO SERVICE CENTER 206 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fremont Branch - Headquarters 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Correctional Institution 1,374 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 311 787 FTE
CITY-NEAR World Wind and Solar 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4317 284 FTE
NAT-TCR Pro Scapes Inc 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LP Calhoun, LLC 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR East Texas Medical Center Emergency Medical Sercvices (Henderson County) 16.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ideal Concrete Block-Westford 16.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bel-Air Manor 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shriners Hospitals for Children 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-America Conversion Services, LLC - Portsmouth 206 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terex - Rock Hill 206 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: 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.