Dairy cattle farming · California

Temple Creek Dairy

Escalon, CA · ~29 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Temple Creek Dairy runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dairy cattle farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Temple Creek Dairy: 7.7 TCR = 170% of Dairy cattle farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Temple Creek Dairy safety composite

Temple Creek Dairy scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−5.3

2017→2024

Temple Creek Dairy injury rate improved

Temple Creek Dairy's TCR fell 5.3 from 5.5 in 2017 to 0.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 25.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.5 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=25.8 · 2023=14.0 · 2024=0.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 170% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #102/205
  • PHOTO Mellema Dairy and Ca…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mellema Dairy and Cattle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Temple Creek Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Temple Creek Dairy averages 7.7 TCR (170% of the Dairy cattle farming BLS benchmark).

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

Temple Creek Dairy TCR series: 2017=5.5 · 2018=2.5 · 2019=10.9 · 2020=0.7 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=25.8 · 2023=14 · 2024=0.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Temple Creek Dairy falls in its industry

530 Dairy cattle farming establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #102 safest of 205 Dairy cattle farming employers in California.

Temple Creek Dairy (29 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Temple Creek Dairy
Temple Creek Dairy (29 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Temple Creek Dairy 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 0.3 0.3 1 0 0
2023 14.0 11.2 5 0 0
2022 25.8 25.8 8 0 0
2021 1.4 1.4 3 1 0
2020 0.7 0.7 3 0 0
2019 10.9 10.9 4 0 0
2018 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2017 5.5 5.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Escalon

530 Dairy cattle farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 23 employers in Escalon, 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 Mellema Dairy and Cattle 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dakota Plains Dairy 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lost Trail Dairy, LLC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skyline Dairy LLC 7.6 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 Escalon Premier Brands 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Escalon Premier Brand 345 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eckert Cold Storage 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hogan Mfg. Inc. 200 FTE
NAT-TCR Northern Plains Equipment - Minot 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Morristown Roofing Company, Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Vinita OK - Warehouse/Office 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Deer River Clinic 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Radcliff Wire Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Look Siding 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrimac Spool & Reel 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens Industries, 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.