Milk production, dairy cattle · California

Charles Ahlem Ranch

Hilmar, CA · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charles Ahlem Ranch runs at 354% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade F.

Charles Ahlem Ranch: 15.9 TCR = 354% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charles Ahlem Ranch safety composite

Charles Ahlem Ranch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Charles Ahlem Ranch: 12.1 → 20.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 20.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2019

Charles Ahlem Ranch's TCR rose 8.3 from 12.1 in 2017 to 20.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Hilmar, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.9 · 354% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #193/205
  • PHOTO Little Calf Ranch
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Little Calf Ranch (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charles Ahlem Ranch in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charles Ahlem Ranch averages 15.9 TCR (354% of the Milk production, dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

Charles Ahlem Ranch TCR series: 2017=12.1 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=20.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Charles Ahlem Ranch falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #193 safest of 205 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in California.

Charles Ahlem Ranch (41 employees, TCR 15.9) 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 Charles Ahlem Ranch
Charles Ahlem Ranch (41 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Charles Ahlem Ranch has more employees than the Milk production, dairy cattle median and a higher 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
2019 20.4 9.3 11 0 0
2018 15.2 6.8 9 0 0
2017 12.1 4.5 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Hilmar

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 18 employers in Hilmar, 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 Little Calf Ranch 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dairy Avenue, LLC 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veldhuis Dairy LLC 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Faial Farms, L.P. (Magnolia Ave.) 16.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ORGANIC FARMING ADMINISTRATION 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Lindsay 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | IEW Enterprise 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Jackson Farms, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Cheese Company INC. 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Site & HIC 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR J.A.C. Ag Services, Inc 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eck Farms Inc 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dbo6 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 991 Houston DC 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Certified Interiors 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 230429-Bal-Waverly Sta 15.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kansas City Sheeting & Shoring 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faf Iah 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fred A. Nemann Co. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poet Biorefining Hanlontown 41 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: 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.