Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · California

Biscuit Plant

Visalia, CA · ~27 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Biscuit Plant runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Biscuit Plant: 5.3 TCR = 136% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Biscuit Plant safety composite

Biscuit Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

Biscuit Plant: 0.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Biscuit Plant's TCR rose 4.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Visalia, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 136% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/20
  • PHOTO Alphia-Bern
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alphia-Bern (0.0 TCR gap)

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Biscuit Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Biscuit Plant averages 5.3 TCR (136% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Biscuit Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=12.7 · 2021=9 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 3.9

Where Biscuit Plant falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 20 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in California.

Biscuit Plant (27 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Biscuit Plant
Biscuit Plant (27 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Biscuit Plant has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023 4.3 0.0 0 1 0
2022 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2021 9.0 3.0 1 2 0
2020 12.7 12.7 2 0 0
2019 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · CA · Visalia

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 Alphia-Bern 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Collar Pet Food San Bernardino 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Co-Pack 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients, Inc. 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR Capital Programs & Buildings 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (SHY) 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Byron House Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #1226 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE GreenLawn Specialists 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skyworks LLC -- New Jersey branch 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moline MI MI 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCR Allentown Tenant LLC 27 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.