Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing · California

Varsity Packing, Inc

Bakersfield, CA · ~97 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Varsity Packing, Inc runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing workplace, earning a grade D.

Varsity Packing, Inc: 6.8 TCR = 150% of Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Varsity Packing, Inc safety composite

Varsity Packing, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

−1.1

2022→2024

Varsity Packing, Inc injury rate improved

Varsity Packing, Inc's TCR fell 1.1 from 6.8 in 2022 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.8 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Bakersfield, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 150% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #152/236
  • PHOTO ORANGE COVE-SANGER C…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ORANGE COVE-SANGER CITRUS ASSOCIATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Varsity Packing, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Varsity Packing, Inc averages 6.8 TCR (150% of the Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing BLS benchmark).

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

Varsity Packing, Inc TCR series: 2022=6.8 · 2023=7.7 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Varsity Packing, Inc falls in its industry

666 Vegetable sorting, grading, an establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #152 safest of 236 Vegetable sorting, grading, an employers in California.

Varsity Packing, Inc (97 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Varsity Packing, Inc
Varsity Packing, Inc (97 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Varsity Packing, Inc has more employees than the Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2024 5.8 1.0 6 0 0
2023 7.7 3.9 8 0 0
2022 6.8 5.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Bakersfield

666 Vegetable sorting, grading, and packing 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 ORANGE COVE-SANGER CITRUS ASSOCIATION 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresh Venture Foods 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diamond Central 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&M Warehouse & Packing Inc 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grapeman Farms 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Westland Floral Company Carpinteria, Inc. 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOS ANGELES RESERVOIR 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corona, CA CS Office/Warehouse 97 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 Prock Marine Company 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Industries, Inc 78th Dodge 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gant 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kenco Engineering 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ring Container Headquarters 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Black Hawk County Courthouse 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Havtech Service Division, LLC - Columbia 97 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.