Herb farming, open field · California

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs

Thermal, CA · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Herb farming, open field workplace, earning a grade C.

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs: 5.2 TCR = 116% of Herb farming, open field BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs safety composite

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2022→2023

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs injury rate improved

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs's TCR fell 3.3 from 6.8 in 2022 to 3.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.8 · 2023=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111998 · Thermal, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 116% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #10/21
  • PHOTO Lake Wendell Farming…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake Wendell Farming Co. LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs averages 5.2 TCR (116% of the Herb farming, open field BLS benchmark).

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

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs TCR series: 2022=6.8 · 2023=3.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs falls in its industry

128 Herb farming, open field establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 21 Herb farming, open field employers in California.

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs (40 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs
Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs (40 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 64 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Van Drunen Farms-Golden State Herbs has fewer employees than the Herb farming, open field median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2023 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2022 6.8 6.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111998 · CA · Thermal

128 Herb farming, open field employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 19 employers in Thermal, 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 Lake Wendell Farming Co. LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pineland Farms inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albany 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tri-State Turf of NC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR EKSC CORPORATION 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Desert Infinity, Inc. 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR LB HARVESTING INC. 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spates Fabricators Inc 248 FTE
NAT-TCR NMC Health 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Staten Island Regional Office 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Molex 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Allied Steel 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Luke's Regional Medical Center Central Laundry Only 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Region Complex (Florence) 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMC Recycling San Antonio 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE ONG ER Broken Arrow SC 40 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.