Dairy cattle farming · Texas

Descanso Dairy LLC

Plainview, TX · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Descanso Dairy LLC runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy cattle farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Descanso Dairy LLC: 12.2 TCR = 272% of Dairy cattle farming BLS 4.5 · 2y 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 15%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−11.6

2022→2023

Descanso Dairy LLC injury rate improved

Descanso Dairy LLC's TCR fell 11.6 from 18.0 in 2022 to 6.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 18.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=18.0 · 2023=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Plainview, TX ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.2 · 272% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #24/26
  • PHOTO Dairy Fountain
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dairy Fountain (0.0 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 12.2 TCR (272% of the Dairy cattle farming BLS benchmark).

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

Descanso Dairy LLC TCR series: 2022=18 · 2023=6.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Descanso Dairy LLC falls in its industry

530 Dairy cattle farming establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #24 safest of 26 Dairy cattle farming employers in Texas.

Descanso Dairy LLC (39 employees, TCR 12.2) 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 Descanso Dairy LLC
Descanso Dairy LLC (39 employees, TCR 12.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Descanso Dairy LLC has more employees than the Dairy cattle farming 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
2023 6.4 4.3 3 0 0
2022 18.0 6.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · TX · Plainview

530 Dairy cattle farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 62 employers in Plainview, 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 Dairy Fountain 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Frank Gwerder Dairy Inc 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iest Family Farms 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhorn Dairy, LLC 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dumas 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Devon Energy - Wink TX 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE FAR SOUTH MINING LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Compression Partners Fleet Operations 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6012 917 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6012 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2004-20048100 342 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covenant Health Plainview 320 FTE
NAT-TCR Quivira Inc 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinity Services Group - CA Solano County 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Valley Packing Inc. 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 9215-OMA 12.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Roller Bearing 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE BrandSafway, LLC - Omaha Branch 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE TurnKey Construction, Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakes Heating 39 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: 2023, 2022. 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.