Dairy Cattle and Milk Production · Texas

Coldwater Dairy

Stratford, TX · ~150 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Coldwater Dairy runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Dairy Cattle and Milk Production workplace, earning a grade A.

Coldwater Dairy: 1.9 TCR = 41% of Dairy Cattle and Milk Production BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Coldwater Dairy safety composite

Coldwater Dairy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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

Coldwater Dairy: 1.1 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2024

Coldwater Dairy's TCR rose 0.7 from 1.1 in 2016 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Stratford, TX AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 41% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #5/26
  • PHOTO Aurora Ridge Dairy, …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aurora Ridge Dairy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Coldwater Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Coldwater Dairy averages 1.9 TCR (41% of the Dairy Cattle and Milk Production BLS benchmark).

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

Coldwater Dairy TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2018=1.1 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Coldwater Dairy falls in its industry

530 Dairy Cattle and Milk Producti establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 26 Dairy Cattle and Milk Producti employers in Texas.

Coldwater Dairy (150 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Coldwater Dairy
Coldwater Dairy (150 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Coldwater Dairy has more employees than the Dairy Cattle and Milk Production 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 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 3 0 0
2022 3.9 3.5 8 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 3 0 0
2020 1.7 1.1 3 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 4 0 0
2018 1.1 0.6 2 0 0
2016 1.1 1.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · TX · Stratford

530 Dairy Cattle and Milk Production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 4 employers in Stratford, TX · 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 Aurora Ridge Dairy, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oakshade Dairy LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dziedzic Farms LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MPM Dairy West LLC 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Champion Home Builders Mansfield 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vulcan Materials Company - DMG Paving & Grading 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ramco Erectors Inc 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apache - Formosa Plastics 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stratford Feedyard 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stratford TX FXFE-SFT 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR SFT 44 FTE
NAT-TCR 3051 N. Marion Dr Ste 101 Las Vegas NV 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 3501 Electronics Way West Palm Beach FL 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Yankee Candle Distribution 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cn Wire Corporation 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Complete Care Linwood 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pocino Foods Company 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southgate at Shrewsbury 150 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, 2016. 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.