Milk production, dairy cattle · California

James Ahlem Dairy

Hilmar, CA · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James Ahlem Dairy runs at 279% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade F.

James Ahlem Dairy: 12.6 TCR = 279% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Ahlem Dairy safety composite

James Ahlem Dairy scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

James Ahlem Dairy: 4.3 → 20.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 20.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

James Ahlem Dairy's TCR rose 16.5 from 4.3 in 2017 to 20.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 279% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #164/205
  • PHOTO Piazzo Dairy, LLC - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Piazzo Dairy, LLC - PDL601 (0.1 TCR gap)

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James Ahlem Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows James Ahlem Dairy averages 12.6 TCR (279% 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

James Ahlem Dairy TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2019=20.8 · BLS 4.5

Where James Ahlem Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milk production, 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 #164 safest of 205 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in California.

James Ahlem Dairy (27 employees, TCR 12.6) 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 James Ahlem Dairy
James Ahlem Dairy (27 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

James Ahlem 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
2019 20.8 0.0 5 0 0
2017 4.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Hilmar

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 18 employers in Hilmar, 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 Piazzo Dairy, LLC - PDL601 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Ag LLC, dba Green Meadows Dairy 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rocking S Dairy 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hettinga Farms 12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Cheese Company INC. 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilmar Site & HIC 931 FTE
CITY-NEAR J.A.C. Ag Services, Inc 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eck Farms Inc 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Jacksonville Residential Hauling 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Coho Oceanfront Lodge 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Age Senior Care of El Paso, LLC 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation Deparment 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Luurtsema Sales Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Supply Columbus 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lourdes University Board (Toledo)** 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dahn Construction Co LLC 27 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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