Milking dairy cattle · California

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6

Modesto, CA · ~35 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 runs at 402% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade F.

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6: 18.1 TCR = 402% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 safety composite

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−7.7

2019→2022

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 injury rate improved

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6's TCR fell 7.7 from 19.3 in 2019 to 11.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 21.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=19.3 · 2020=20.4 · 2021=21.0 · 2022=11.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.1 · 402% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #196/205
  • PHOTO Pete Vander Poel Dairy
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pete Vander Poel Dairy (0.1 TCR gap)

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Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 averages 18.1 TCR (402% 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 #6 TCR series: 2019=19.3 · 2020=20.4 · 2021=21 · 2022=11.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #196 safest of 205 Milking dairy cattle employers in California.

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 (35 employees, TCR 18.1) 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 #6
Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 (35 employees, TCR 18.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 has fewer 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
2022 11.6 5.8 4 0 0
2021 21.0 14.0 6 0 0
2020 20.4 8.2 5 0 0
2019 19.3 15.4 5 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 Pete Vander Poel Dairy 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR D & V Dairy 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Table Rock Farm, Inc. 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Homestead Dairy 18.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 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 6458-ZDET 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Heights (#17) 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Torrance 18.1 TCR
NAT-TCR S&H Delivery LLC 18.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shawnee Hospice 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Science Central 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE SA Alloys 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fergus Falls Schools McKinley 35 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: 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.