Dairy Farm · California

Hettinga Farms

Pixley, CA · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hettinga Farms runs at 282% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy Farm workplace, earning a grade F.

Hettinga Farms: 12.7 TCR = 282% of Dairy Farm BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hettinga Farms safety composite

Hettinga Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Hettinga Farms: 9.7 → 15.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2019

Hettinga Farms's TCR rose 6.0 from 9.7 in 2018 to 15.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 282% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #165/205
  • PHOTO United Ag LLC, dba G…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: United Ag LLC, dba Green Meadows Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hettinga Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hettinga Farms averages 12.7 TCR (282% of the Dairy Farm BLS benchmark).

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

Hettinga Farms TCR series: 2018=9.7 · 2019=15.7 · BLS 4.5

Where Hettinga Farms falls in its industry

530 Dairy Farm establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #165 safest of 205 Dairy Farm employers in California.

Hettinga Farms (46 employees, TCR 12.7) 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 Hettinga Farms
Hettinga Farms (46 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Hettinga Farms has more 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 15.7 11.4 11 0 0
2018 9.7 8.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Pixley

530 Dairy Farm employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 25 employers in Pixley, 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 United Ag LLC, dba Green Meadows Dairy 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piazzo Dairy, LLC - PDL601 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Ahlem Dairy 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Top O The Morn Farms 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matteoli Brothers 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMR Farms-San Miguel 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Berry Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitigliano Farm Services, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR misael nunez 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tres Herraduras Farm Labor Service 700 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tipton Processing Plant 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Correa Pallet Inc 111 FTE
NAT-TCR Pbi-West Palm Beach 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gramercy Hill 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 5585 - Renaissance - Austin 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ECC:EC010 - EC010-Bessemer, AL - 0100 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oml Enterprises Inc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Max & Erma's Washington 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wenzel Plumbing 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regional Zone - Stafford, TX 46 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.