Flour, rice, manufacturing · California

SunWest Milling Inc

Biggs, CA · ~74 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SunWest Milling Inc runs at 262% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Flour, rice, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

SunWest Milling Inc: 8.6 TCR = 262% of Flour, rice, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SunWest Milling Inc safety composite

SunWest Milling Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−8.4

2017→2024

SunWest Milling Inc injury rate improved

SunWest Milling Inc's TCR fell 8.4 from 14.6 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=14.6 · 2018=6.7 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=11.7 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311212 · Biggs, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 262% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO Farmers' Rice Cooper…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Farmers' Rice Cooperative - PIRMI (0.2 TCR gap)

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SunWest Milling Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SunWest Milling Inc averages 8.6 TCR (262% of the Flour, rice, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SunWest Milling Inc TCR series: 2017=14.6 · 2018=6.7 · 2021=7 · 2022=11.7 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where SunWest Milling Inc falls in its industry

49 Flour, rice, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 16 Flour, rice, manufacturing employers in California.

SunWest Milling Inc (74 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate SunWest Milling Inc
SunWest Milling Inc (74 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.5

SunWest Milling Inc has more employees than the Flour, rice, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.2 4.7 4 0 0
2023 5.5 3.7 2 1 0
2022 11.7 11.7 8 0 0
2021 7.0 7.0 6 0 0
2018 6.7 5.6 5 1 0
2017 14.6 13.6 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311212 · CA · Biggs

49 Flour, rice, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 3 employers in Biggs, 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 Farmers' Rice Cooperative - PIRMI 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farmers' Rice Cooperative - West Sacramento 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAN AMERICAN GRAIN MFG - RICO 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minsley, Inc 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apricot Lane Farms 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central California Almond Growers (Kerman) 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Jesus Garcia Jr 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Point Four, Inc 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rice Experiment Station 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Uni-Kool Yuma 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HitchDoc 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lydick-Hooks Roofing Co. of Wichita Falls, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Samaritan Pacific Com Hosp 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE VPT 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE HTI Spartnaburg 3 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington Hides 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Litchfield 74 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, 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.