Fruit, vacuum cooling · California

Western Precooling

Fremont, CA · ~140 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Precooling runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fruit, vacuum cooling workplace, earning a grade D.

Western Precooling: 7.9 TCR = 176% of Fruit, vacuum cooling BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Precooling safety composite

Western Precooling scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Western Precooling: 6.8 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2018

Western Precooling's TCR rose 2.1 from 6.8 in 2017 to 8.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115114 · Fremont, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #174/236
  • PHOTO Cowiche Growers Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cowiche Growers Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Precooling in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Precooling averages 7.9 TCR (176% of the Fruit, vacuum cooling BLS benchmark).

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

Western Precooling TCR series: 2017=6.8 · 2018=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Western Precooling falls in its industry

666 Fruit, vacuum cooling establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #174 safest of 236 Fruit, vacuum cooling employers in California.

Western Precooling (140 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Western Precooling
Western Precooling (140 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Western Precooling has more employees than the Fruit, vacuum cooling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2018 8.9 5.6 16 0 0
2017 6.8 1.1 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115114 · CA · Fremont

666 Fruit, vacuum cooling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 348 employers in Fremont, 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 Cowiche Growers Inc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Lakes Packing Co 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Degesch America Columbia River 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor & Fulton Packing LLC 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mirabella Farms, Inc. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meadowlark Harvesting, Inc 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Saddleback S/C 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP PO BOX 111 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Fremont-45500 Fremont Blvd 21,378 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Fremont-Factory 12,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 517 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lam Research Corp. Fremont Campus 2,887 FTE
NAT-TCR Heartland Health Care Center - Livonia 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Office 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Thermal Windows & Doors LLC - Headquarters 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 4113-41131003-R54 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clayton Service Center 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fechheimer Brothers Company 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE L3 Technologies Brashear 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roanoke Landing Nursing & Rehab 140 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: 2018, 2017. 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.