Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing · Washington

Darigold Lynden Plant

Lynden, WA · ~60 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darigold Lynden Plant runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Darigold Lynden Plant: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darigold Lynden Plant safety composite

Darigold Lynden Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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)
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Darigold Lynden Plant held a steady TCR band

Darigold Lynden Plant's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.1 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.1 · 2020=3.0 · 2021=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Lynden, WA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Bay Valley Foods, LL…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bay Valley Foods, LLC New Hampton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darigold Lynden Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darigold Lynden Plant averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Darigold Lynden Plant TCR series: 2019=3.1 · 2020=3 · 2021=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Darigold Lynden Plant falls in its industry

185 Milk, concentrated, condensed, establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Milk, concentrated, condensed, employers in Washington.

Darigold Lynden Plant (60 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 Darigold Lynden Plant
Darigold Lynden Plant (60 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Darigold Lynden Plant has fewer employees than the Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, ev median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2021 3.0 1.5 1 1 0
2020 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2019 3.1 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · WA · Lynden

185 Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 52 employers in Lynden, WA · 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 Bay Valley Foods, LLC New Hampton 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kerry Rochester 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Foods Corp 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milk Specialties Global Norfolk 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Crest Estate Vineyards #10 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE FV Clipper Surprise 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cascade Natural Gas General office 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer District 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lynden Door, Inc. 515 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maberry Packing LLC 278 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enfield Farms Inc 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Christian Health Care Center 203 FTE
NAT-TCR Herr Foods Inc. 72 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR California Center for the Arts, Escondido 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Solstice Senior Living at Clovis 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Adora 9 Operations, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 455 Phalen 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington Street 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saint Agnes Hospital EM 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE CRI - Mid Michigan 60 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.