Farm labor contractors · California

Surf Packing Inc

Lompoc, CA · ~95 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Surf Packing Inc runs at 11% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Farm labor contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

Surf Packing Inc: 0.5 TCR = 11% of Farm labor contractors BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Surf Packing Inc safety composite

Surf Packing Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Surf Packing Inc: 0.8 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2173.9 TCR · DART/TCR 3.02× in 2024

Surf Packing Inc's TCR rose 0.7 from 0.8 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2173.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 3.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Lompoc, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 11% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #18/620
  • PHOTO J.C. HARVESTING CORP…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J.C. HARVESTING CORPORATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Surf Packing Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Surf Packing Inc averages 0.5 TCR (11% of the Farm labor contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Surf Packing Inc TCR series: 2017=0.8 · 2019=0.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=2173.9 · 2022=0 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Surf Packing Inc falls in its industry

836 Farm labor contractors establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 620 Farm labor contractors employers in California.

Surf Packing Inc (95 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Surf Packing Inc
Surf Packing Inc (95 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Surf Packing Inc has fewer employees than the Farm labor contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2173.9 1087.0 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2017 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Lompoc

836 Farm labor contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 39 employers in Lompoc, 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 J.C. HARVESTING CORPORATION 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR F&J FERNANDEZ CONTRACTING 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR H2A Complete II, Inc. B&E Harvesting 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Don Farm Labor Contracting Inc. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Del Llano Farms 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Los Altos Farms, LLC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE TreeSource 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa View Farms 2 (Madera) 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Lompoc 376 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1989 312 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1989 311 FTE
CITY-NEAR River Ranch 303 FTE
NAT-TCR US Aqua Services Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR INNIO Waukesha Gas Engines, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinity 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Acousti Engineering Houston 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE TAMKO Building Products LLC - Phillipsburg 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Day One Deliveries LLC 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE H. Kramer & Co. 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encore Precast, LLC 95 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.