Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing · California

Nestle, USA

Modesto, CA · ~127 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nestle, USA runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Nestle, USA: 4.5 TCR = 135% of Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nestle, USA safety composite

Nestle, USA scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−3.7

2022→2023

Nestle, USA injury rate improved

Nestle, USA's TCR fell 3.7 from 6.3 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.3 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Modesto, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 135% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #21/38
  • PHOTO Dairy Farmers of Ame…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dairy Farmers of America (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nestle, USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nestle, USA averages 4.5 TCR (135% of the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nestle, USA TCR series: 2022=6.3 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Nestle, USA falls in its industry

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 38 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin employers in California.

Nestle, USA (127 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nestle, USA
Nestle, USA (127 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Nestle, USA has fewer employees than the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogen median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2023 2.6 1.8 3 0 0
2022 6.3 3.1 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · CA · Modesto

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 418 employers in Modesto, 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 Dairy Farmers of America 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kwik Trip Dairy 769 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Agri-Mark, Inc. 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dairy Fresh - Winston Salem 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Christensen & Giannini LLC 1588 Moffett St., Ste B 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hokto Kinoko Company 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Booth Ranches LLC - BR2 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3019_5835 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30240) 3,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Modesto Operations 3,043 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-930 3,018 FTE
CITY-NEAR 930 DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER OF MODESTO 2,759 FTE
NAT-TCR Great Barrington #155 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Compassus - Kalamazoo 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearwing Systems Integration, LLC 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanwha Advanced Materials America LLC. Monroe 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Linc 2860 (Clark Street - M) 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE North End Middle School 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Albans #127 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Lights #174 127 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: 2023, 2022. 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.