Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers · California

Venida Packing Co.

Exeter, CA · ~117 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Venida Packing Co. runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Venida Packing Co.: 1.7 TCR = 79% of Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Venida Packing Co. safety composite

Venida Packing Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Venida Packing Co.: 1.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.76× in 2023

Venida Packing Co.'s TCR rose 3.7 from 1.0 in 2017 to 4.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Exeter, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 79% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #8/71
  • PHOTO Calavo Growers
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Calavo Growers (0.1 TCR gap)

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Venida Packing Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Venida Packing Co. averages 1.7 TCR (79% of the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Venida Packing Co. TCR series: 2017=1 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=0 · 2023=4.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Venida Packing Co. falls in its industry

369 Berries, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 71 Berries, fresh, merchant whole employers in California.

Venida Packing Co. (117 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 Venida Packing Co.
Venida Packing Co. (117 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Venida Packing Co. has more employees than the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 4.8 4.8 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2019 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2018 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2017 1.0 1.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · CA · Exeter

369 Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 26 employers in Exeter, 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 Calavo Growers 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Garden Wholesale, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Foods_Chicago 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hearty Fresh 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frog Hollow Farm LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Cattle LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE LFA 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oxnard Plant #4 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gutierrez FLC Inc 1,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR Exeter - F031 330 FTE
CITY-NEAR farm labor 218 FTE
CITY-NEAR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BAKING CO 214 FTE
NAT-TCR Winchester Precast 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fabco-Air, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Service Machine & Supply International, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Basket #09 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE North America : Atlanta 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE DSC Dredge 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE H2A Complete II, Inc.Anzualda Harvesting, Inc. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accutemp 117 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.