Vegetable farming, grown under cover · California
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista
Watsonville, CA · ~40 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 12.1
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista runs at 270% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Vegetable farming, grown under cover workplace, earning a grade F.
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista: 12.1 TCR = 270% of Vegetable farming, grown under cover BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista safety composite
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).
20/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 12.13 per 100 workers
Safer than 7% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 6.85 per 100 workers
Safer than 13% of industry peers
- Fatalities
- D 0
Safer than 50% 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
−1.9
2018→2024
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista injury rate improved
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista's TCR fell 1.9 from 8.7 in 2018 to 6.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 29.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
2018=8.7 · 2019=11.4 · 2020=29.7 · 2021=10.1 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=6.8
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 111419 · Watsonville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 270% of ind
- DART 6.8 DART
- RANK #17/19
- PHOTO Franklin South
- BOOK 6y book
- INJ 28 inj
- SIZE ~40 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Franklin South (0.0 TCR gap)
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Watsonville/San Juan Bautista in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista
12.1 TCR
- Franklin South
Franklin South
12.1 TCR
- Copperstate Fa
Copperstate Farms Management LLC
12.1 TCR
- Steele
Steele
12.1 TCR
- Sozo Health In
Sozo Health Inc
12.1 TCR
What this shows Watsonville/San Juan Bautista averages 12.1 TCR (270% of the Vegetable farming, grown under cover BLS benchmark).
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista TCR series: 2018=8.7 · 2019=11.4 · 2020=29.7 · 2021=10.1 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 4.5
Where Watsonville/San Juan Bautista falls in its industry
251 Vegetable farming, grown under establishmentsSafer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.
Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 19 Vegetable farming, grown under employers in California.
Watsonville/San Juan Bautista has fewer employees than the Vegetable farming, grown under cover median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 6.1 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 10.1 | 2.5 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 29.7 | 7.4 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 11.4 | 4.9 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018 | 8.7 | 5.2 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
111419 · CA · Watsonville
251 Vegetable farming, grown under cover 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 | Franklin South | 12.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Copperstate Farms Management LLC | 12.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Steele | 12.1 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Sozo Health Inc | 12.1 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Stackhouse Brothers | 40 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. | 40 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Gomez Growers | 40 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Growing Grounds | 40 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 | MNM013 | 12.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | TXD074 | 12.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Klickitat Valley Health | 12.1 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Jim Falls | 12.1 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Hancock Lumber Company-Windham | 40 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | DMC Service Group | 40 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Dawn Food Products - Denver Distribution | 40 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Skyland Grain, LLC-Johnson | 40 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.