Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing · California

Steele (Volkman Pet Products)

Ceres, CA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Steele (Volkman Pet Products) runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Steele (Volkman Pet Products): 7.5 TCR = 191% of Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steele (Volkman Pet Products) safety composite

Steele (Volkman Pet Products) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−2.6

2023→2024

Steele (Volkman Pet Products) injury rate improved

Steele (Volkman Pet Products)'s TCR fell 2.6 from 8.8 in 2023 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.8 · 2024=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Ceres, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 191% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #30/36
  • PHOTO Select Veal Feeds, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Select Veal Feeds, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steele (Volkman Pet Products) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Steele (Volkman Pet Products) averages 7.5 TCR (191% of the Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Steele (Volkman Pet Products) TCR series: 2023=8.8 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Steele (Volkman Pet Products) falls in its industry

756 Bird feed, prepared, manufactu establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 36 Bird feed, prepared, manufactu employers in California.

Steele (Volkman Pet Products) (54 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Steele (Volkman Pet Products)
Steele (Volkman Pet Products) (54 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Steele (Volkman Pet Products) has more employees than the Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 6.1 6.1 4 0 0
2023 8.8 8.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · CA · Ceres

756 Bird feed, prepared, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 61 employers in Ceres, 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 Select Veal Feeds, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oglethorpe Feed Mill 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR APC - Arion 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crystal Feeds 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sea Mist Farms 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harold E. Robben, Jr. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Maria Perez 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pauma Valley 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-227 914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronco Wine Company 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dan Avila & Sons - Farming 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1983 390 FTE
NAT-TCR 3404 Seabrook 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Dorchester Freeport-MAAB 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NoMo Soho 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR CLF-Stable, LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Axis Engineering 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maple Hill Senior Living 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Terraces at Lakewood 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vowell's Marketplace #2 Forest 54 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: 2024, 2023. 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.