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
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).
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
- This site
Value Added Soledad
1.6 TCR
- Nature Soy Hol
Nature Soy Holdings - Philadelphia
1.6 TCR
- Braga Fresh Go
Braga Fresh Gonzales 1
1.6 TCR
- Nuovo Pasta Pr
Nuovo Pasta Productions, Ltd. - Cleveland
1.6 TCR
- Braga Fresh Fo
Braga Fresh Foods Gonzales
1.6 TCR
What this shows Value Added Soledad averages 1.6 TCR (39% of the Salads, fresh or refrigerated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).
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, establishmentsSafer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.
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 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 →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.