Milking dairy cattle · California

De Groot Dairies

Hanford, CA · ~69 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

De Groot Dairies runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

De Groot Dairies: 8.9 TCR = 197% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

De Groot Dairies safety composite

De Groot Dairies scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

De Groot Dairies: 5.5 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

De Groot Dairies's TCR rose 1.6 from 5.5 in 2019 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 197% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #129/205
  • PHOTO MasCow Dairy, LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MasCow Dairy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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De Groot Dairies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows De Groot Dairies averages 8.9 TCR (197% of the Milking dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

De Groot Dairies TCR series: 2019=5.5 · 2020=8.7 · 2021=10.5 · 2022=12.5 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=7 · BLS 4.5

Where De Groot Dairies falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #129 safest of 205 Milking dairy cattle employers in California.

De Groot Dairies (69 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 De Groot Dairies
De Groot Dairies (69 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

De Groot Dairies has more 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 7.0 7.0 7 0 0
2023 9.1 8.0 8 0 0
2022 12.5 12.5 11 0 0
2021 10.5 10.5 10 0 0
2020 8.7 8.7 8 0 0
2019 5.5 3.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Hanford

530 Milking dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 118 employers in Hanford, 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 MasCow Dairy, LLC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Country Dairy, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR LDF Inc 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benjert Farms Inc 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Woolf Enterprises 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terranova Ranch, Inc 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rayo Shop 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Harvesting | Citrus Harvesting 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Daniel C. Salas Harvesting Inc. 2,932 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hanford Community Hospital 1,849 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9292-AHHF001 - HOSPITAL 1,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR A.M. AG ENTERPRISE, INC. 976 FTE
NAT-TCR Market of Choice Store #8 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado-Rehab Transportation 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MAC Plant 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR M F & H Textiles, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clean Uniform Company Highland 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Combined Energy Services 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Paper - Gateway Sheets 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE WG Construction Co., Inc. 69 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.