Milking dairy cattle · California

Clauss Dairy Farms

Hilmar, CA · ~31 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Clauss Dairy Farms runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

Clauss Dairy Farms: 6.2 TCR = 138% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Clauss Dairy Farms safety composite

Clauss Dairy Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−3.5

2017→2024

Clauss Dairy Farms injury rate improved

Clauss Dairy Farms's TCR fell 3.5 from 9.1 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.1 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 138% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #77/205
  • PHOTO Hilarides Dairy
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hilarides Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Clauss Dairy Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Clauss Dairy Farms averages 6.2 TCR (138% of the Milking dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

Clauss Dairy Farms TCR series: 2017=9.1 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=2.6 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Clauss Dairy Farms falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #77 safest of 205 Milking dairy cattle employers in California.

Clauss Dairy Farms (31 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Clauss Dairy Farms
Clauss Dairy Farms (31 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Clauss Dairy Farms has fewer employees than the Milking 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
2024 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2023 8.1 2.7 3 0 0
2022 2.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2020 5.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 5.4 5.4 2 0 0
2018 11.2 5.6 4 0 0
2017 9.1 2.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Hilmar

530 Milking 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 Hilarides Dairy 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tuls Dairy Farms, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newhouse Dairy 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Plains Complex 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nielsen Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Star Nurseries LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 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 Albertville Plant 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Specialty Hospital - Wilmington, Inc 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Transit MJR Garage 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Voss Clark 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Antilles Roofing Co., Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE D. J. Kranz Co., Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of South Windsor - Library 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3900 W. William Richarson Dr. 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, 2018, 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.