Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning · California

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos

Los Banos, CA · ~127 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning workplace, earning a grade D.

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos: 5.7 TCR = 174% of Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos safety composite

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos held a steady TCR band

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.0 in 2021 to 6.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.0 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Los Banos, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 174% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #26/52
  • PHOTO Liberty Packing Comp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Liberty Packing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos averages 5.7 TCR (174% of the Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning BLS benchmark).

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

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos TCR series: 2021=6 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=6.2 · BLS 3.3

Where The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos falls in its industry

330 Pastes, fruit and vegetable, c establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 52 Pastes, fruit and vegetable, c employers in California.

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos (127 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos
The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos (127 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

The Morning Star Packing Company - Los Banos has fewer employees than the Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2023 6.2 4.1 9 0 0
2022 5.1 4.4 6 1 0
2021 6.0 6.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · CA · Los Banos

330 Pastes, fruit and vegetable, canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 52 employers in Los Banos, 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 Liberty Packing Company 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arcadia Beverage LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BEAUMONT JUICE, INC. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Del Monte Foods, Inc. Yakima Plant 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Christensen & Giannini LLC 1588 Moffett St., Ste B 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hokto Kinoko Company 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Booth Ranches LLC - BR2 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3019_5835 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 316 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Liberty Packing Company 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30738) 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2117 364 FTE
NAT-TCR 0936 - Tolleson Az (Dry) Depot 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0289 - Dallas Tx (Wet) Depot 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CCC Hastings * 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 5855 - Springfield-MA 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Banker Steel South, LLC 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Angola Wire Products, Inc 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fastco Industries, Inc. 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fiesta # 59 127 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.