Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing · California

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc

Santa Maria, CA · ~123 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc: 2.4 TCR = 74% of Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc safety composite

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc: 1.7 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2024

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc's TCR rose 1.3 from 1.7 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Santa Maria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #6/29
  • PHOTO Bonduelle USA
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bonduelle USA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sure Fresh Produce, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sure Fresh Produce, Inc averages 2.4 TCR (74% of the Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Sure Fresh Produce, Inc falls in its industry

224 Vegetables, frozen, manufactur establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 29 Vegetables, frozen, manufactur employers in California.

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc (123 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sure Fresh Produce, Inc
Sure Fresh Produce, Inc (123 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Sure Fresh Produce, Inc has fewer employees than the Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 3.0 3.0 4 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 4 0 0
2017 1.7 1.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · CA · Santa Maria

224 Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 Bonduelle USA 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great American Snacks NAMPA 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCain Foods 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company, Food-Othello 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Four Star Fruit 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE CADY2 - 05 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Vineyards 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeBernardi Bros 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Waldorf 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cole Manufacturing 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR US Road - Wichita Service Center 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Galesburg 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palram Americas 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Douglas 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Graco Inc. - Riverside Office Complex 123 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, 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.