Milking dairy cattle · California

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1

Hickman, CA · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade B.

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1: 3.5 TCR = 78% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 safety composite

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−3.1

2021→2023

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 injury rate improved

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1's TCR fell 3.1 from 3.1 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.1 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Hickman, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/205
  • PHOTO Willow Point Dairy
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Willow Point Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 averages 3.5 TCR (78% of the Milking dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 TCR series: 2021=3.1 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 4.5

Where Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #24 safest of 205 Milking dairy cattle employers in California.

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 (31 employees, TCR 3.5) 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 Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1
Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 (31 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #1 has fewer employees than the Milking dairy cattle median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 7.5 3.7 2 0 0
2021 3.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Hickman

530 Milking dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 7 employers in Hickman, 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 Willow Point Dairy 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Natural Prairie Dairy Farms, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Der Geest Dairy Cattle, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stone Land Company 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nielsen Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Star Nurseries LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frantz Wholesale Nursery LLC 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3225_6213 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frantz Nursery 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dave Wilson Nursery 131 FTE
NAT-TCR Conns DC-Houston 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodman's Food Market Madison East 16 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Corbin/London KY FXFE-CRB 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Generations Of Vernon 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parts Authority Springfield Garden 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brampton Brick 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeland School Dist * 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cadillac Area Pub Sc * 31 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, 2021. 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.