Dairy Farm · California

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy

Tipton, CA · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dairy Farm workplace, earning a grade D.

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy: 8.7 TCR = 194% of Dairy Farm BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy safety composite

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy: 2.0 → 15.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2019

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy's TCR rose 13.4 from 2.0 in 2018 to 15.4 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.7 · 194% of ind

  • DART 15.4 DART
  • RANK #126/205
  • PHOTO Art Leyendekker Dairy
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Art Leyendekker Dairy (0.1 TCR gap)

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Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy averages 8.7 TCR (194% of the Dairy Farm BLS benchmark).

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

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy TCR series: 2018=2 · 2019=15.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy falls in its industry

530 Dairy Farm establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #126 safest of 205 Dairy Farm employers in California.

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy (29 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy
Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy (29 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy has fewer employees than the Dairy Farm 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
2019 15.4 15.4 5 0 0
2018 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Tipton

530 Dairy Farm employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 18 employers in Tipton, 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 Art Leyendekker Dairy 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR George te Velde Dairy 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR East River Genetic Services LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GTA Dairy dba GTA Calf Ranch & George Atsma Dairy (Dairy) 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sean V. Doherty Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanco Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SHOP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottonwood Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR TITAN AG SERVICES, INC. 1,137 FTE
CITY-NEAR Calftech Corporation 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ventura Coastal Tipton Division 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pitigliano Farm Services, Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-TCR Northern Metal Recycling St Cloud 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI Moroni 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Peach Glen 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Safco - WI (Steel Plant) 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE NGTS-S950 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic Health System-New Prague Clinic 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE FreshOne Distribution Services 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulfbreeze Courtyard 29 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: 2019, 2018. 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.