Nursery stock growing · California

Western Star Nurseries LLC

Sunol, CA · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Star Nurseries LLC runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursery stock growing workplace, earning a grade C.

Western Star Nurseries LLC: 5.2 TCR = 116% of Nursery stock growing BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Star Nurseries LLC safety composite

Western Star Nurseries LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−12.3

2017→2024

Western Star Nurseries LLC injury rate improved

Western Star Nurseries LLC's TCR fell 12.3 from 15.3 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.0 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111421 · Sunol, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.2 · 116% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #60/120
  • PHOTO Bremer
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bremer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Star Nurseries LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Star Nurseries LLC averages 5.2 TCR (116% of the Nursery stock growing BLS benchmark).

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

Western Star Nurseries LLC TCR series: 2017=15.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=4 · 2021=9.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where Western Star Nurseries LLC falls in its industry

386 Nursery stock growing establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 120 Nursery stock growing employers in California.

Western Star Nurseries LLC (31 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Western Star Nurseries LLC
Western Star Nurseries LLC (31 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Western Star Nurseries LLC has fewer employees than the Nursery stock growing 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 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.8 4.9 2 0 0
2020 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 15.3 15.3 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111421 · CA · Sunol

386 Nursery stock growing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 3 employers in Sunol, 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 Bremer 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agromillora California 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Filice Farms, LP 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Treeland TL 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nielsen Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mesquite Cattle Feeders 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Water Enterprise 1,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Griffin Soil Group Sunol Location 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Strasburg VA 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Alco Elyria 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross Downing Buick Gmc of Gonzales 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR WMC Steel 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Food Service - CT 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steuben County Government - Highway 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE HD Weaver Ditching Service, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Five Star Architectural 31 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, 2020, 2019, 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.