Dairy cattle farming · California

A & W Farms LLC

Bakersfield, CA · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A & W Farms LLC runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Dairy cattle farming workplace, earning a grade B.

A & W Farms LLC: 2.8 TCR = 62% of Dairy cattle farming BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A & W Farms LLC safety composite

A & W Farms LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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)
B 2.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

A & W Farms LLC: 0.0 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

A & W Farms LLC's TCR rose 5.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Bakersfield, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 62% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #12/205
  • PHOTO S & S Dairy
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S & S Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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A & W Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A & W Farms LLC averages 2.8 TCR (62% of the Dairy cattle farming BLS benchmark).

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

A & W Farms LLC TCR series: 2018=0 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 4.5

Where A & W Farms LLC falls in its industry

530 Dairy cattle farming establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 205 Dairy cattle farming employers in California.

A & W Farms LLC (26 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate A & W Farms LLC
A & W Farms LLC (26 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

A & W Farms LLC has fewer employees than the Dairy cattle farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Bakersfield

530 Dairy cattle farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 818 employers in Bakersfield, 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 S & S Dairy 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aurora-Oakwood Dairy, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skyline Dairy 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR W.W. Patterson, Inc. 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE HAULING & TRAILER SHOP 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Seasholtz Co., LLC 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redwood Valley Vineyards 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Central Coast Vineyards 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Bakersfield 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-04 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BFL1 4,113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Esparza Enterprises, Inc 3,267 FTE
NAT-TCR 02000-02-02-EUGENE 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Caltech Manufacturing, Inc 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond Va - 288 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mobile Al - 105 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE TWO MEN AND A TRUCK North Aurora 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Branch 4396 - Southfield,MI 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Epic Labs 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Young's Masonry, Inc 26 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, 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.