Milking dairy cattle · California

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy

Hilmar, CA · ~17 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade C.

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy: 5.4 TCR = 119% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy safety composite

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.49 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

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy: 7.4 → 10.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.96× in 2024

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy's TCR rose 3.1 from 7.4 in 2017 to 10.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 119% of ind

  • DART 10.5 DART
  • RANK #53/205
  • PHOTO Scotch Prairie Farms…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scotch Prairie Farms LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy averages 5.4 TCR (119% of the Milking dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=4 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=12.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 55% 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 #53 safest of 205 Milking dairy cattle employers in California.

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy (17 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy
Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy (17 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy has fewer employees than the Milking dairy cattle median and a lower 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 10.5 10.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 12.4 8.2 3 0 0
2021 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2020 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.4 3.7 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Hilmar

530 Milking 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Scotch Prairie Farms LLC 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR J & R Dairy 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LARSON DAIRY, INC. 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornerstone Dairy 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Dixon Research Station 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laub Ranches Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sherwood Equipment Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton Ranch, Inc. 17 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 108RIV 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Cheese - Amarillo, TX 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Enclave 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Alloy Corporation - Ball Ground 5.4 TCR

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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.