Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production · California

T&A - Salinas - Farm

Salinas, CA · ~213 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

T&A - Salinas - Farm runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production workplace, earning a grade D.

T&A - Salinas - Farm: 7.0 TCR = 155% of Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

T&A - Salinas - Farm safety composite

T&A - Salinas - Farm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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%).

Rising injury rate

T&A - Salinas - Farm: 6.4 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2024

T&A - Salinas - Farm's TCR rose 1.1 from 6.4 in 2023 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 155% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #110/175
  • PHOTO LAJES FARMS INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~213 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LAJES FARMS INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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T&A - Salinas - Farm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows T&A - Salinas - Farm averages 7.0 TCR (155% of the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

T&A - Salinas - Farm TCR series: 2023=6.4 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where T&A - Salinas - Farm falls in its industry

331 Vegetable and potato farming, establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #110 safest of 175 Vegetable and potato farming, employers in California.

T&A - Salinas - Farm (213 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate T&A - Salinas - Farm
T&A - Salinas - Farm (213 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

T&A - Salinas - Farm has more employees than the Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 7.5 6.8 11 0 0
2023 6.4 5.4 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Salinas

331 Vegetable and potato farming, vegetable (except potato) dominant crops, field, bedding plants and seed production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 LAJES FARMS INC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Huntington Farms 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Mushrooms 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NGP FARM LABOR LLC 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pistoresi Agricultural Service 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE EXCEL AG SERVICES, INC 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE ISREAL GUERRERO 213 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROXANNE ARZOLA 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Mohig - Higginsville 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Towerlight on Woodale 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Delmar Gardens of Overland Park 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Branford 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Central Island Healthcare 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Ruidoso 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wiste - Stevens Point Hub 213 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Hickory Woods 213 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. 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.