Strawberry farming · California

USA Berry Farms

Salinas, CA · ~490 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

USA Berry Farms runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade B.

USA Berry Farms: 3.3 TCR = 74% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

USA Berry Farms safety composite

USA Berry Farms scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

USA Berry Farms held a steady TCR band

USA Berry Farms's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.9 in 2022 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Salinas, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 74% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #51/124
  • PHOTO R.MONTANEZ FARMS, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~490 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R.MONTANEZ FARMS, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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USA Berry Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows USA Berry Farms averages 3.3 TCR (74% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

USA Berry Farms TCR series: 2022=2.9 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 4.5

Where USA Berry Farms falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

USA Berry Farms (490 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate USA Berry Farms
USA Berry Farms (490 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

USA Berry Farms has more employees than the Strawberry farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 2.7 2.3 6 0 0
2023 4.3 3.1 8 3 0
2022 2.9 2.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Salinas

132 Strawberry farming 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 R.MONTANEZ FARMS, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PV Farming Operations, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3 GENERACIONES LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JDB Pro Inc, dba Central West Produce 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CASNR - SAN RAMON 490 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Blue Bus 490 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anlin Industries 490 FTE
STATE-SIZE DC9 DC9 SAN BERNARDINO CA 490 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 Viking Range, LLC - Corporate & IT Offices 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1541 Monument 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 3857 Miamisburg 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4158 Hilltown 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Federal Signal Corp (University Park) 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Jersey DC5 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Zoological Society 490 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accurate Home Care, LLC 490 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. 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.