Dairy Farm · California

Southern Cross Dairy

Buttonwillow, CA · ~45 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Cross Dairy runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dairy Farm workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Cross Dairy: 7.8 TCR = 172% of Dairy Farm BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Cross Dairy safety composite

Southern Cross Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Southern Cross Dairy: 0.0 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2021

Southern Cross Dairy's TCR rose 11.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 11.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.8 · 172% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #105/205
  • PHOTO Rancho Teresita Dairy
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rancho Teresita Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Cross Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Cross Dairy averages 7.8 TCR (172% of the Dairy Farm BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Cross Dairy TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=10.4 · 2019=9.1 · 2021=11.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Southern Cross Dairy falls in its industry

530 Dairy Farm establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #105 safest of 205 Dairy Farm employers in California.

Southern Cross Dairy (45 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Southern Cross Dairy
Southern Cross Dairy (45 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Southern Cross 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
2021 11.4 7.6 9 0 0
2019 9.1 5.2 7 0 0
2018 10.4 10.4 7 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Buttonwillow

530 Dairy Farm employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 13 employers in Buttonwillow, 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 Rancho Teresita Dairy 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wright's Dairy Farm & Bakery 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Platteville Dairy 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omro Dairy, LLC 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salinas Transplant Company 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Firma Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald Beeman Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Mist Farms, LP 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reyes Contracting Inc 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandridge Partners,LP 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goyenetche Dairy LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Star North Dairy 42 FTE
NAT-TCR Eastpointe Rehab LLC 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Branch 5 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Lewis University-Fm 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ram-lin 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit #2370 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zwick USA LP 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lang Stone Co 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4765-TTNPW9601 45 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: 2021, 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.