Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers · California

Watsonville Coast Produce

Name: Watsonville Coast Produce Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Watstonville, CA · ~98 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 8.8
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Watsonville Coast Produce runs at 398% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Watsonville Coast Produce: 8.8 TCR = 398% of Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watsonville Coast Produce safety composite

Watsonville Coast Produce scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers
DART rate: F 6.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Watsonville Coast Produce held a steady TCR band

Watsonville Coast Produce's TCR held near 0.1 from 7.8 in 2017 to 7.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.8 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Watstonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 398% of ind

DART 6.9 DART
RANK #56/71
PHOTO Bix Produce Company
BOOK 3y book
INJ 27 inj
SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bix Produce Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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8.8
Bix Produce Co

8.8
Stern Produce

8.8
PH Cider LLC

8.8
Mr Greens Prod

8.8

What this shows Watsonville Coast Produce averages 8.8 TCR (398% of the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Watsonville Coast Produce TCR series: 2017=7.8 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=7.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Watsonville Coast Produce falls in its industry

369 Produce, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 71 Produce, fresh, merchant whole employers in California.

Watsonville Coast Produce (98 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Watsonville Coast Produce has more employees than the Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a higher 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
2019	7.9	6.9	8
2018	10.5	9.6	11
2017	7.8	6.9	8

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · CA · Watstonville

369 Produce, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Bix Produce Company	ST. PAUL, MN	8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stern Produce Co., Inc.	PHOENIX, AZ	8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PH Cider LLC	LAKE CITY, MN	8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Mr Greens Produce - Plant City	PLANT CITY, FL	8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Coastal GVIC Ranches	HEALDSBURG	98 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Chapala Berry Farms	WATSONVILLE	98 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc	BAKERSFIELD	98 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bains Orchards Inc.	YUBA CITY	98 FTE
NAT-TCR	IPI-Staff	Anamosa, IA	8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Noise Barriers, LLC	Libertyville, IL	8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Baker Boy Bake Shop, Inc.	Dickinson, ND	8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hin 17	Seven Hills, OH	8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Arrowhead Precast	Broken Arrow, OK	98 FTE
NAT-SIZE	MD-141 National Business Pkwy Annapolis Junction MD	Annapolis Junction, MD	98 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Alpha Packaging Salt Lake City	Salt Lake City, UT	98 FTE
NAT-SIZE	William Lyon Homes, Inc. - WA Division	Bellevue, WA	98 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.