Agriculture production or harvesting crews · California

Vale Harvesting LLC

Bakersfield, CA · ~21 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vale Harvesting LLC runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agriculture production or harvesting crews workplace, earning a grade F.

Vale Harvesting LLC: 10.8 TCR = 241% of Agriculture production or harvesting crews BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vale Harvesting LLC safety composite

Vale Harvesting LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

−43.4

2021→2024

Vale Harvesting LLC injury rate improved

Vale Harvesting LLC's TCR fell 43.4 from 43.4 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 43.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=43.4 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 241% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #562/620
  • PHOTO Woods Family Farms
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Woods Family Farms (0.1 TCR gap)

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Vale Harvesting LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vale Harvesting LLC averages 10.8 TCR (241% 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

Vale Harvesting LLC TCR series: 2021=43.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Vale Harvesting LLC falls in its industry

836 Agriculture production or harv establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #562 safest of 620 Agriculture production or harv employers in California.

Vale Harvesting LLC (21 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Vale Harvesting LLC
Vale Harvesting LLC (21 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Vale Harvesting LLC 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 43.4 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115115 · CA · Bakersfield

836 Agriculture production or harvesting crews employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 818 employers in Bakersfield, 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 Woods Family Farms 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Growers Transplanting, Inc. - Fuji Farm 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stehly Grove Management, Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Angry Peacock 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Bakersfield 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-04 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1 4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esparza Enterprises, Inc 3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR Ware Presbyterian Village 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR IAS Masonville 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Inspirations of Tempe 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Symmetrix Composite Tooling 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE AMG Resources - Wheeling, WV 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heilind Electronics, Inc. - Div. 82 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concentric Concord 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yankton 21 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. 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.