Shallot farming, field and seed production · California

Willoughby Farms, Inc

Watsonville, CA · ~96 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Willoughby Farms, Inc runs at 73% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Shallot farming, field and seed production workplace, earning a grade B.

Willoughby Farms, Inc: 3.3 TCR = 73% of Shallot farming, field and seed production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Willoughby Farms, Inc safety composite

Willoughby Farms, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Willoughby Farms, Inc: 2.2 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2024

Willoughby Farms, Inc's TCR rose 4.7 from 2.2 in 2019 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111219 · Watsonville, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.3 · 73% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #37/175
  • PHOTO T&A - Oxnard - Harvest
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: T&A - Oxnard - Harvest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Willoughby Farms, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Willoughby Farms, Inc averages 3.3 TCR (73% of the Shallot farming, field and seed production BLS benchmark).

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

Willoughby Farms, Inc TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Willoughby Farms, Inc falls in its industry

331 Shallot farming, field and see establishments

Safer than 74% 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 #37 safest of 175 Shallot farming, field and see employers in California.

Willoughby Farms, Inc (96 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Willoughby Farms, Inc
Willoughby Farms, Inc (96 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Willoughby Farms, Inc has more employees than the Shallot farming, field and seed producti median and a lower 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 6.8 5.1 8 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2019 2.2 0.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111219 · CA · Watsonville

331 Shallot farming, field and seed production 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 T&A - Oxnard - Harvest 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Growers Management Inc 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meek Ranches LLC 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schreiner Brothers Farms 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE SUN AND SANDS ENTERPRISES, LLC DBA PRIME TIME INTERNATIONAL 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redding trim Shed 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE SUN VALLEY RAISINS, INC 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE KLINK ORANGE COVE CITRUS 2 96 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 Life Care Center of Crossville 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Marpac Inc 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hranec Sheet Metal 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Tenneco Napoleon 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Steel Fabrication 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sumitomo (SHI) Cryogenics of America, Inc. 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheltered Village 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Homestead of Denison 96 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.