Sod farming · California

Thermal

Thermal, CA · ~50 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thermal runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sod farming workplace, earning a grade C.

Thermal: 4.5 TCR = 99% of Sod farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thermal safety composite

Thermal scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.2

2018→2024

Thermal injury rate improved

Thermal's TCR fell 2.2 from 7.7 in 2018 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.7 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Thermal, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.5 · 99% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #46/120
  • PHOTO Acemi Nursery
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Acemi Nursery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thermal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thermal averages 4.5 TCR (99% of the Sod farming BLS benchmark).

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

Thermal TCR series: 2018=7.7 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=5 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Thermal falls in its industry

386 Sod farming establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 120 Sod farming employers in California.

Thermal (50 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Thermal
Thermal (50 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Thermal has fewer employees than the Sod farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 5.5 3.7 3 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2021 5.0 5.0 3 0 0
2020 3.7 3.7 1 1 0
2019 4.4 4.4 2 1 0
2018 7.7 7.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Thermal

386 Sod farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 19 employers in Thermal, 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 Acemi Nursery 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Duarte Nursery Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bountiful Farms Nursery 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Means Nursery Inc (River Road) 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack Bros., Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE M Three Ranches, LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penterman Farming Company 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trefethen Farming, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR EKSC CORPORATION 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Desert Infinity, Inc. 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR LB HARVESTING INC. 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spates Fabricators Inc 248 FTE
NAT-TCR Portland Nursery-Stark 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bismarck Location 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR MTS Indianapolis 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ditron 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Phantom Importing and Distributing, LLC 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE The White Market II 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE The White Market III 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seacole-CRC, LLC 50 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.