Milking dairy cattle · California

Iest Family Farms

Madera, CA · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iest Family Farms runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade F.

Iest Family Farms: 12.3 TCR = 274% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iest Family Farms safety composite

Iest Family Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−0.5

2017→2019

Iest Family Farms injury rate improved

Iest Family Farms's TCR fell 0.5 from 12.6 in 2017 to 12.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.6 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.6 · 2019=12.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.3 · 274% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #161/205
  • PHOTO Elkhorn Dairy, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elkhorn Dairy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iest Family Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iest Family Farms averages 12.3 TCR (274% of the Milking dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

Iest Family Farms TCR series: 2017=12.6 · 2019=12.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Iest Family Farms falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #161 safest of 205 Milking dairy cattle employers in California.

Iest Family Farms (64 employees, TCR 12.3) 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 Iest Family Farms
Iest Family Farms (64 employees, TCR 12.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Iest Family Farms 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
2019 12.1 9.9 11 0 0
2017 12.6 12.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Madera

530 Milking dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 162 employers in Madera, 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 Elkhorn Dairy, LLC 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocking S Dairy 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Descanso Dairy LLC 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dairy Fountain 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDERA 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGS FARM LABOR CORPORATION 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arroyo Seco Vineyards, Inc 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pacific Farm Management Inc 17,529 FTE
CITY-NEAR Petroff Ag Services Inc 2,253 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 170 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Madera 1,393 FTE
NAT-TCR Colonial Hill Center 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Garrett County Fair 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Marinemax Northeast, LLC-Mbb 12.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 476 12.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meriter Wisconsin Heart 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Ceramics Inc. 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE JBP Pocatello 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traffic Systems, Inc. 64 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.