Dairy Farm · California

Mellema Dairy and Cattle

Visalia, CA · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mellema Dairy and Cattle runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dairy Farm workplace, earning a grade D.

Mellema Dairy and Cattle: 7.7 TCR = 170% of Dairy Farm BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mellema Dairy and Cattle safety composite

Mellema Dairy and Cattle scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Mellema Dairy and Cattle: 6.8 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2019

Mellema Dairy and Cattle's TCR rose 1.7 from 6.8 in 2018 to 8.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 170% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #103/205
  • PHOTO Temple Creek Dairy
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Temple Creek Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mellema Dairy and Cattle in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mellema Dairy and Cattle averages 7.7 TCR (170% of the Dairy Farm BLS benchmark).

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

Mellema Dairy and Cattle TCR series: 2018=6.8 · 2019=8.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Mellema Dairy and Cattle falls in its industry

530 Dairy Farm establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #103 safest of 205 Dairy Farm employers in California.

Mellema Dairy and Cattle (46 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Mellema Dairy and Cattle
Mellema Dairy and Cattle (46 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Mellema Dairy and Cattle 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
2019 8.5 7.1 6 0 0
2018 6.8 2.7 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Visalia

530 Dairy Farm employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 Temple Creek Dairy 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dakota Plains Dairy 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lost Trail Dairy, LLC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skyline Dairy LLC 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matteoli Brothers 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMR Farms-San Miguel 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Berry Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitigliano Farm Services, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR SEMCO 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Glenmore 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-120-Pottery Barn 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 5700 New Braunfels Lbm 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Charlottesville-Parks 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE DAL 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Compress 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE TLC Home Health of Ohio, In. (Branch) 46 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, 2018. 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.