Milk production, dairy cattle · California

J & J Vander Poel Dairy

Pixley, CA · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J & J Vander Poel Dairy runs at 327% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade F.

J & J Vander Poel Dairy: 14.7 TCR = 327% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J & J Vander Poel Dairy safety composite

J & J Vander Poel Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

J & J Vander Poel Dairy: 2.4 → 14.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 28.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

J & J Vander Poel Dairy's TCR rose 12.3 from 2.4 in 2017 to 14.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 28.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× 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 14.7 · 327% of ind

  • DART 12.6 DART
  • RANK #183/205
  • PHOTO Haagsma and Pinheiro…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Haagsma and Pinheiro Dairy (0.1 TCR gap)

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J & J Vander Poel Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J & J Vander Poel Dairy averages 14.7 TCR (327% of the Milk production, dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

J & J Vander Poel Dairy TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=13.3 · 2019=28.5 · 2024=14.7 · BLS 4.5

Where J & J Vander Poel Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #183 safest of 205 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in California.

J & J Vander Poel Dairy (29 employees, TCR 14.7) 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 J & J Vander Poel Dairy
J & J Vander Poel Dairy (29 employees, TCR 14.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

J & J Vander Poel Dairy has fewer employees than the Milk production, 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
2024 14.7 12.6 7 0 0
2019 28.5 20.7 11 0 0
2018 13.3 10.7 5 0 0
2017 2.4 2.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Pixley

530 Milk production, dairy cattle 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 Haagsma and Pinheiro Dairy 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shamrock Farms 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lemstra Cattle Company, LLC 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Luna Dairy 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sean V. Doherty Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanco Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SHOP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottonwood Farms 29 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 Genuine Parts Company 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR KYB001 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR D.W. Transport & Leasing Inc. 14.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Crew One Productions - Gulf Shores 14.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE SKS Machine Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Detroit 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Chicago Midway 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snow Shoe Refractories, LLC 29 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: 2024, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.