Strawberry farming · California

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC

Oxnard, CA · ~1,113 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Strawberry farming workplace, earning a grade D.

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC: 8.6 TCR = 192% of Strawberry farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC safety composite

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC: 5.9 → 8.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2022

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC's TCR rose 2.7 from 5.9 in 2018 to 8.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111333 · Oxnard, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 8.6 · 192% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #103/124
  • PHOTO R & A Uyematsu, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 239 inj
  • SIZE ~1,113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: R & A Uyematsu, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Coast Berry Farms, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Coast Berry Farms, LLC averages 8.6 TCR (192% of the Strawberry farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC TCR series: 2018=5.9 · 2021=11.3 · 2022=8.6 · BLS 4.5

Where West Coast Berry Farms, LLC falls in its industry

132 Strawberry farming establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 124 Strawberry farming employers in California.

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC (1,113 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate West Coast Berry Farms, LLC
West Coast Berry Farms, LLC (1,113 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 208 employees and a TCR of 3.9

West Coast Berry Farms, LLC has more employees than the Strawberry farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2022 8.6 2.6 81 1 0
2021 11.3 4.1 81 13 0
2018 5.9 1.7 77 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111333 · CA · Oxnard

132 Strawberry farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 303 employers in Oxnard, 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 R & A Uyematsu, LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Rosa Berry Farms, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joshua Ranch 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corralitos Nursery 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Probation 1,112 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2252-00000772 1,111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - SBD2 1,111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 1,115 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - OXR1 2,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Oxnard 1,753 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030383 1,437 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Regional Medical Center 1,352 FTE
NAT-TCR Pitkin Elementary School 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S04123 - WM of AL - Baldwin (Satellite) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR General Aluminum Manufacturing Company 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Malog - Logan Airport 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Primary Poultry - Springdale AR Plant 1,113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mdbal - Baltimore 1,113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vesta Property Services, Inc. 1,113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utility Supply & Construction Company - ALL 1,113 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: 2022, 2021, 2018. 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.