Milk production, dairy cattle · Texas

Descanso Dairy, LLC

Hale Center, TX · ~26 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Descanso Dairy, LLC runs at 231% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade F.

Descanso Dairy, LLC: 10.4 TCR = 231% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Descanso Dairy, LLC safety composite

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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.51 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

−4.0

2016→2021

Descanso Dairy, LLC injury rate improved

Descanso Dairy, LLC's TCR fell 4.0 from 12.3 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.3 · 2017=6.2 · 2020=14.9 · 2021=8.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Hale Center, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 231% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #22/26
  • PHOTO Open Sky Ranch, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Open Sky Ranch, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Descanso Dairy, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Descanso Dairy, LLC averages 10.4 TCR (231% 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

Descanso Dairy, LLC TCR series: 2016=12.3 · 2017=6.2 · 2020=14.9 · 2021=8.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Descanso Dairy, LLC falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #22 safest of 26 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Texas.

Descanso Dairy, LLC (26 employees, TCR 10.4) 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 Descanso Dairy, LLC
Descanso Dairy, LLC (26 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Descanso Dairy, LLC has fewer 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
2021 8.3 5.5 3 0 0
2020 14.9 14.9 4 0 0
2017 6.2 3.1 2 0 0
2016 12.3 12.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · TX · Hale Center

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 4 employers in Hale Center, 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 Open Sky Ranch, Inc. 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunRidge Dairy 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Springlake Dairy LLC 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milk Made Dairy-Tierra Buena Ranch 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Belding Farms 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friona Industries, L.P. 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keeling Cattle Feeders 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Center Hatchery 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hale Center Feedyard 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR HALE CENTER FEED YARD 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heifer Ranch at Arroyo Seco, LTD 32 FTE
NAT-TCR Fresh Ideas Management- McPherson College 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Bend - Streets & Fleet 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brickl Bros., Inc. 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Duck 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flightcraft PDX 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlantic Aviation - SUN 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1340 Lkq 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northeast Montana Stat Air Ambulance 26 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, 2017, 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.