Dairy Farm · California

Pete Vander Poel Dairy

Tulare, CA · ~29 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pete Vander Poel Dairy runs at 405% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy Farm workplace, earning a grade F.

Pete Vander Poel Dairy: 18.2 TCR = 405% of Dairy Farm BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pete Vander Poel Dairy safety composite

Pete Vander Poel Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Pete Vander Poel Dairy: 5.0 → 21.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 28.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.78× in 2019

Pete Vander Poel Dairy's TCR rose 16.3 from 5.0 in 2017 to 21.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 28.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 405% of ind

  • DART 14.2 DART
  • RANK #197/205
  • PHOTO Foster Dairy Farms, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Pete Vander Poel Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pete Vander Poel Dairy averages 18.2 TCR (405% of the Dairy Farm BLS benchmark).

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

Pete Vander Poel Dairy TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=28.4 · 2019=21.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Pete Vander Poel Dairy falls in its industry

530 Dairy Farm establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #197 safest of 205 Dairy Farm employers in California.

Pete Vander Poel Dairy (29 employees, TCR 18.2) 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 Pete Vander Poel Dairy
Pete Vander Poel Dairy (29 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Pete Vander Poel Dairy has fewer 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 21.3 14.2 6 0 0
2018 28.4 21.3 8 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Tulare

530 Dairy Farm employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 130 employers in Tulare, 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 Foster Dairy Farms, Dairy #6 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Homestead Dairy 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR D & V Dairy 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Table Rock Farm, Inc. 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sean V. Doherty Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanco Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SHOP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottonwood Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Ag Personnel Management Inc. 8,764 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cal Enterprise Labor Solutions, Inc. 5,974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Golden State Ag Services, Inc. 5,846 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Labor Services, Inc. 2,845 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Works Compound 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 0470 - Spring Hill, Fl 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Complete Care at Silver Lake 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sacred Heart Home 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE iFLY Austin 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE iFLY Rosemont 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc. / Warehouse / Transportation 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 086 ABC Supply Co., Inc 29 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, 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.