Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · California

Watsonville CA

Watsonville, CA · ~66 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Watsonville CA runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Watsonville CA: 3.4 TCR = 154% of Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watsonville CA safety composite

Watsonville CA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Watsonville CA: 2.9 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Watsonville CA's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.9 in 2020 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 154% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #72/136
  • PHOTO 72882
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 72882 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watsonville CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watsonville CA averages 3.4 TCR (154% of the Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Watsonville CA TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Watsonville CA falls in its industry

1,202 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 136 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesa employers in California.

Watsonville CA (66 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Watsonville CA
Watsonville CA (66 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Watsonville CA has more employees than the Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.3 4.3 3 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2022 3.7 2.5 3 0 0
2021 4.7 4.7 2 1 0
2020 2.9 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · CA · Watsonville

1,202 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 72882 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cokato Agronomy 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BFG Supply Co-Grand Rapids 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Key Cooperative - Nevada 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nuseed Americas, Inc., West Sacramento Innovation Center 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE ORGANIC BUNCH HARVESTING 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navco Berry Harvest 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE kings orchards, llc 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR Rolling Meadows Health and Rehabilitation 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1531 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1508 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1260 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CORE Staffing, LLC 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE MidWest Quality Gloves 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laredo - 7802 West Bob Bullock Loop 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anomatic Corporation- Naugatuck 66 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, 2021, 2020. 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.