Milking dairy cattle · California

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4

Modesto, CA · ~42 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4 runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4: 6.1 TCR = 135% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4 safety composite

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4: 7.1 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4's TCR rose 1.8 from 7.1 in 2019 to 8.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 135% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #74/205
  • PHOTO La Belle Dairy, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: La Belle Dairy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4 averages 6.1 TCR (135% 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 #4 TCR series: 2019=7.1 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=8.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4 falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #74 safest of 205 Milking dairy cattle employers in California.

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4 (42 employees, TCR 6.1) 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 #4
Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4 (42 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #4 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
2023 8.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 4.7 2.3 2 0 0
2021 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 2 0 0
2019 7.1 7.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Modesto

530 Milking dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 418 employers in Modesto, 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 La Belle Dairy, LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bluegrass Dairy 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big De Farms, L.P. (Farm) 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacheco and Associates II 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quad H 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CJJ Farming, Inc 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connell Ranch 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240) 3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modesto Operations 3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-930 3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR 930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO 2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR Forman Glass 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR AWPI-Princeton 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR United 356 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Corrections (5) 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE (DBA Seaton Hagerstown) 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1st American Management Co., Inc. 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA - Veritiv 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deep South Crane & Rigging LLC @ ExxonMobil Complex Baton Rouge Louisiana 42 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, 2020, 2019. 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.