Dairy Farm · California

L & J Vanderham Dairy

Riverdale, CA · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

L & J Vanderham Dairy runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy Farm workplace, earning a grade F.

L & J Vanderham Dairy: 9.8 TCR = 218% of Dairy Farm BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

L & J Vanderham Dairy safety composite

L & J Vanderham Dairy scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

2018→2020

L & J Vanderham Dairy injury rate improved

L & J Vanderham Dairy's TCR fell 0.5 from 7.0 in 2018 to 6.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 15.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.0 · 2019=15.9 · 2020=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 218% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #139/205
  • PHOTO Cloverdale Dairy LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cloverdale Dairy LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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L & J Vanderham Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows L & J Vanderham Dairy averages 9.8 TCR (218% of the Dairy Farm BLS benchmark).

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

L & J Vanderham Dairy TCR series: 2018=7 · 2019=15.9 · 2020=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where L & J Vanderham Dairy falls in its industry

530 Dairy Farm establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #139 safest of 205 Dairy Farm employers in California.

L & J Vanderham Dairy (48 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 L & J Vanderham Dairy
L & J Vanderham Dairy (48 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

L & J Vanderham Dairy 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
2020 6.5 2.6 5 0 0
2019 15.9 12.5 14 0 0
2018 7.0 3.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Riverdale

530 Dairy Farm employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 16 employers in Riverdale, 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 Cloverdale Dairy LLC 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Ranch Farms, LLC 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Sky Dairy 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sagebrush Ranches LLC 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE ARVIN PRODUCTION & ADMIN 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rava Business Park 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guerrero Transportation & Contracting Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE VPS, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jacobo Farm Services 645 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Service L.L.C. 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maddox Farms (Burrel Location) 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maddox Dairy 73 FTE
NAT-TCR The Paramount at Somers 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FI - Evergreen Woods, LLC 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1381 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 555 Kissimmee, Fl 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1105 North Austin 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wausau 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Girl Orlando 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Loxley 48 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.