Irrigation project construction (except lawn) · California

Watson Ag Irrigation

Caruthers, CA · ~52 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watson Ag Irrigation runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Irrigation project construction (except lawn) workplace, earning a grade F.

Watson Ag Irrigation: 6.3 TCR = 226% of Irrigation project construction (except lawn) BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watson Ag Irrigation safety composite

Watson Ag Irrigation scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Watson Ag Irrigation: 7.1 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Watson Ag Irrigation's TCR rose 0.9 from 7.1 in 2022 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Caruthers, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 226% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #170/201
  • PHOTO PKG Contracting, Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PKG Contracting, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watson Ag Irrigation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watson Ag Irrigation averages 6.3 TCR (226% of the Irrigation project construction (except lawn) BLS benchmark).

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

Watson Ag Irrigation TCR series: 2022=7.1 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=8 · BLS 2.8

Where Watson Ag Irrigation falls in its industry

1,614 Irrigation project constructio establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #170 safest of 201 Irrigation project constructio employers in California.

Watson Ag Irrigation (52 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Watson Ag Irrigation
Watson Ag Irrigation (52 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Watson Ag Irrigation has fewer employees than the Irrigation project construction (except median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 8.0 8.0 3 1 0
2023 3.9 3.9 1 1 0
2022 7.1 7.1 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · CA · Caruthers

1,614 Irrigation project construction (except lawn) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in Caruthers, 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 PKG Contracting, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Backhoe Excavating, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MARINSHIP DEVELOPMENT INTEREST, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canby Excavating, Inc. 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phil Foster Ranch 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Ivanhoe 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brassfield Estate Vineyard 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR L. Gonzales Corporation 751 FTE
CITY-NEAR F&T Farms 502 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amalur, LLC 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Artzai, LLC 149 FTE
NAT-TCR Indian River Preserve Golf Club 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Naples Zoo 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Valley of the Sun Rehabilitation Hospital 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City Hall 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cheran Inc 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Centerline Manufacturing Ltd. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Pointe Senior Living 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE HORIBA Instruments Reno 52 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.