Dry milk manufacturing · California

Tipton Processing Plant

Pixley, CA · ~117 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tipton Processing Plant runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dry milk manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Tipton Processing Plant: 7.8 TCR = 235% of Dry milk manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tipton Processing Plant safety composite

Tipton Processing Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.6

2017→2024

Tipton Processing Plant injury rate improved

Tipton Processing Plant's TCR fell 1.6 from 5.7 in 2017 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.7 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4.0 · 2020=19.4 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Pixley, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 235% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #18/20
  • PHOTO Mill Haven Foods - N…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mill Haven Foods - New Lisbon (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tipton Processing Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tipton Processing Plant averages 7.8 TCR (235% of the Dry milk manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tipton Processing Plant TCR series: 2017=5.7 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4 · 2020=19.4 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Tipton Processing Plant falls in its industry

185 Dry milk manufacturing establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #18 safest of 20 Dry milk manufacturing employers in California.

Tipton Processing Plant (117 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Tipton Processing Plant
Tipton Processing Plant (117 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tipton Processing Plant has more employees than the Dry milk 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 4.1 4.1 6 0 0
2023 8.8 8.8 12 0 0
2022 7.9 5.7 9 2 0
2021 8.9 6.7 7 5 0
2020 19.4 16.6 7 21 0
2019 4.0 3.3 6 0 0
2018 3.5 2.8 4 1 0
2017 5.7 5.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · CA · Pixley

185 Dry milk manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 25 employers in Pixley, 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 Mill Haven Foods - New Lisbon 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR BlendHouse LLC 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lone Star Dairy Products 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mill Haven Foods 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frog Hollow Farm LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Cattle LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE LFA 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oxnard Plant #4 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR misael nunez 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tres Herraduras Farm Labor Service 700 FTE
CITY-NEAR Correa Pallet Inc 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR J.D. Heiskell & Co. Pixley CA 105 FTE
NAT-TCR Admiral Beverage Production 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Radcliff Store 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoals MPE, LLC 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Substitutes 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Just Packaging, Inc. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE J Becher & Associates Inc 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE 166-Westin Atlanta Airport 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE John C. Proctor Endowment 117 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.