Vegetable precooling · California

Uni-Kool Salinas

Salinas, CA · ~43 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Uni-Kool Salinas runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable precooling workplace, earning a grade D.

Uni-Kool Salinas: 6.9 TCR = 153% of Vegetable precooling BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Uni-Kool Salinas safety composite

Uni-Kool Salinas scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Uni-Kool Salinas: 5.5 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2024

Uni-Kool Salinas's TCR rose 5.1 from 5.5 in 2018 to 10.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.9 · 153% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #153/236
  • PHOTO Berberian Nut Company
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Berberian Nut Company (0.1 TCR gap)

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Uni-Kool Salinas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Uni-Kool Salinas averages 6.9 TCR (153% of the Vegetable precooling BLS benchmark).

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

Uni-Kool Salinas TCR series: 2018=5.5 · 2019=5 · 2020=12.7 · 2021=5.6 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Uni-Kool Salinas falls in its industry

666 Vegetable precooling establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #153 safest of 236 Vegetable precooling employers in California.

Uni-Kool Salinas (43 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Uni-Kool Salinas
Uni-Kool Salinas (43 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Uni-Kool Salinas has fewer employees than the Vegetable precooling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 10.6 8.0 4 0 0
2023 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2022 5.4 2.7 2 2 0
2021 5.6 2.8 4 0 0
2020 12.7 9.0 4 3 0
2019 5.0 1.7 3 0 0
2018 5.5 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Salinas

666 Vegetable precooling 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 Berberian Nut Company 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Varsity Packing, Inc 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bloomington Plant 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ORANGE COVE-SANGER CITRUS ASSOCIATION 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Robert & Sandra Garcia Farming Partnership 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARVIN ADMINISTRATION 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald W Beeman 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE KG Vineyard Management, LLC 43 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 Dallas Irving Blvd 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH048 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TXH068 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Spirit Industries LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Stephen Middle School 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allegheny Construction Company 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSI Lubricants LLC/Starfleet - Belle Glade 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sandvik Coromant - Spanish Fork 43 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.