Floriculture Production · California

Westerlay Orchids LP

Carpinteria, CA · ~138 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westerlay Orchids LP runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Floriculture Production workplace, earning a grade D.

Westerlay Orchids LP: 8.9 TCR = 198% of Floriculture Production BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westerlay Orchids LP safety composite

Westerlay Orchids LP scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2017→2024

Westerlay Orchids LP injury rate improved

Westerlay Orchids LP's TCR fell 5.3 from 8.9 in 2017 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.9 · 2018=9.0 · 2019=6.4 · 2021=14.7 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111422 · Carpinteria, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 198% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #17/33
  • PHOTO Ritter Production Fa…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 82 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ritter Production Farms - Flower Farm (0.1 TCR gap)

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Westerlay Orchids LP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westerlay Orchids LP averages 8.9 TCR (198% of the Floriculture Production BLS benchmark).

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

Westerlay Orchids LP TCR series: 2017=8.9 · 2018=9 · 2019=6.4 · 2021=14.7 · 2022=10.1 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Westerlay Orchids LP falls in its industry

166 Floriculture Production establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 33 Floriculture Production employers in California.

Westerlay Orchids LP (138 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Westerlay Orchids LP
Westerlay Orchids LP (138 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Westerlay Orchids LP has more employees than the Floriculture Production median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 3.6 2.1 5 2 0
2023 9.8 3.9 12 3 0
2022 10.1 1.9 12 4 0
2021 14.7 3.9 18 5 0
2019 6.4 6.4 10 0 0
2018 9.0 6.9 13 0 0
2017 8.9 5.2 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111422 · CA · Carpinteria

166 Floriculture Production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 45 employers in Carpinteria, 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 Ritter Production Farms - Flower Farm 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR VHG 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NC3 Systems 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (OH) 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Danell Custom Harvesting LLC - DCH629 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sustainable Labor Solutions, Inc 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE RLH Fire Protection 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE In-N-Out Burger Maintenance Group 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 166 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR LinkedIn Carpinteria 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coastal Blooms Nursery, LLC 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuSil Technology, Carpinteria 322 FTE
NAT-TCR South Terrace Elementary 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Plano 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Worcester Distribution Center 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Arc Noble County Foundations, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Montrose Ford LLC 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Makson Inc. 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern MEP, Inc 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otterbein Cridersville 138 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.