Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing · California

Value Added Soledad

Soledad, CA · ~826 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Value Added Soledad runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Value Added Soledad: 1.6 TCR = 39% of Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Value Added Soledad safety composite

Value Added Soledad scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

Value Added Soledad: 0.7 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2024

Value Added Soledad's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.7 in 2017 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Soledad, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 39% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #8/69
  • PHOTO Nature Soy Holdings …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~826 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nature Soy Holdings - Philadelphia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Value Added Soledad in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Value Added Soledad averages 1.6 TCR (39% of the Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Value Added Soledad TCR series: 2017=0.7 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=1.4 · 2023=1.2 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Value Added Soledad falls in its industry

376 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 69 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, employers in California.

Value Added Soledad (826 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Value Added Soledad
Value Added Soledad (826 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Value Added Soledad has more employees than the Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufactu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 5.3 1.0 20 22 0
2023 1.2 0.8 11 0 0
2021 1.4 0.3 16 0 0
2020 1.2 0.2 12 2 1
2019 0.8 0.3 8 0 0
2018 0.7 0.3 7 0 0
2017 0.7 0.1 2 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · CA · Soledad

376 Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Soledad, 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 Nature Soy Holdings - Philadelphia 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Braga Fresh Gonzales 1 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nuovo Pasta Productions, Ltd. - Cleveland 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Braga Fresh Foods Gonzales 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nevell Group Inc. 826 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jewish Home 826 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9277-550 NORTHSTAR - MOUNTAIN 826 FTE
STATE-SIZE JDB Pro Inc, dba Central West Produce 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vista Verde Labor, Inc 1,564 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cerritos Farms, Inc. 1,299 FTE
CITY-NEAR PRO AG HARVESTING INC. 795 FTE
CITY-NEAR Al Pak Labor, Inc. 432 FTE
NAT-TCR Flex-Erect 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Danisco Terre Haute 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mary Ann's Specialty Foods 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Petrex, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bradley Hospital 826 FTE
NAT-SIZE TRUMPF Inc. 826 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Phoenix G10 Aviation 826 FTE
NAT-SIZE TS Tech USA 826 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.