Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Tom Bengard Ranch

Salinas, CA · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tom Bengard Ranch runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade D.

Tom Bengard Ranch: 6.6 TCR = 147% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tom Bengard Ranch safety composite

Tom Bengard Ranch scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.0

2017→2023

Tom Bengard Ranch injury rate improved

Tom Bengard Ranch's TCR fell 9.0 from 9.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.0 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=13.9 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115115 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 147% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #443/620
  • PHOTO Foster Dairy Farms, …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tom Bengard Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tom Bengard Ranch averages 6.6 TCR (147% of the Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS benchmark).

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

Tom Bengard Ranch TCR series: 2017=9 · 2018=3.9 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=8.1 · 2021=13.9 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Tom Bengard Ranch falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #443 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Tom Bengard Ranch (30 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Tom Bengard Ranch
Tom Bengard Ranch (30 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Tom Bengard Ranch has fewer employees than the Agriculture production or harvesting cre median and a higher 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 13.9 13.9 3 0 0
2020 8.1 4.0 2 0 0
2019 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 3.9 0.0 1 0 0
2017 9.0 4.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Salinas

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews 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 Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy shop 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Farm Management Inc 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Overlook Harvesting Company 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Petroff Ag Services Inc 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE BZNUR 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1780 San Juan Rd. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter Oaks 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfields Turf, Inc. 30 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 Pioneer Medical Center 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Deeter Foundry 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Intercession City 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Independent Record Pressing, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Western Bus Sales, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE GJ - Grand Junction 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trademark Metals Recycling LLC - Sutton 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trinks Inc 30 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.