Dairy cattle farming · California

Scalia Farms

Porterville, CA · ~15 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Scalia Farms runs at 321% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy cattle farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Scalia Farms: 14.4 TCR = 321% of Dairy cattle farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scalia Farms safety composite

Scalia Farms scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

−20.5

2018→2024

Scalia Farms injury rate improved

Scalia Farms's TCR fell 20.5 from 24.0 in 2018 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 24.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=24.0 · 2019=16.0 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 321% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #180/205
  • PHOTO Pagels Ponderosa Dai…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Scalia Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Scalia Farms averages 14.4 TCR (321% of the Dairy cattle farming BLS benchmark).

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

Scalia Farms TCR series: 2018=24 · 2019=16 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Scalia Farms falls in its industry

530 Dairy cattle farming establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #180 safest of 205 Dairy cattle farming employers in California.

Scalia Farms (15 employees, TCR 14.4) 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 Scalia Farms
Scalia Farms (15 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Scalia Farms has fewer employees than the Dairy cattle farming 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
2024 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2019 16.0 16.0 3 0 0
2018 24.0 24.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Porterville

530 Dairy cattle farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 147 employers in Porterville, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Pagels Ponderosa Dairy LLC 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rio Blanco, LLC 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR C & M RUCKS DAIRY, INC. 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Raymond and Sue Quaresma Dairy 14.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE JK FARMS 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE workers 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pajaro Valley 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE MMF-Hemet 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 173 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR AG 1,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Star Harvesting Inc 1 1,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6021 1,030 FTE
NAT-TCR Wesley Woods of Newnan 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tom Berkowitz Trucking, Inc. 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Lodge Assisted Living and Memory Care Community 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilldrup Companies, Inc.- Orlando, FL 14.4 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, 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.