Milk production, dairy cattle · California

Vander Poel Farms LLC

Pixley, CA · ~17 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vander Poel Farms LLC runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

Vander Poel Farms LLC: 6.9 TCR = 154% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vander Poel Farms LLC safety composite

Vander Poel Farms LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Vander Poel Farms LLC: 0.0 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 22.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Vander Poel Farms LLC's TCR rose 5.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 22.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.9 · 154% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #87/205
  • PHOTO Danzeisen Dairy, LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Danzeisen Dairy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vander Poel Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vander Poel Farms LLC averages 6.9 TCR (154% of the Milk production, dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

Vander Poel Farms LLC TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=22.6 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Vander Poel Farms LLC falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #87 safest of 205 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in California.

Vander Poel Farms LLC (17 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Vander Poel Farms LLC
Vander Poel Farms LLC (17 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Vander Poel Farms LLC has fewer employees than the Milk production, dairy cattle 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 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2019 22.6 18.8 6 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Pixley

530 Milk production, dairy cattle 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Danzeisen Dairy, LLC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ramona Dairy LLC 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GH Dairy - Hatch 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Coast Calf Ranch, LLC 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Dixon Research Station 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laub Ranches Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sherwood Equipment Inc 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barton Ranch, Inc. 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR misael nunez 783 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tres Herraduras Farm Labor Service 700 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tipton Processing Plant 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Correa Pallet Inc 111 FTE
NAT-TCR Blue Streak Finishers 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hajoca 403 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Venture Plastics LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1598 Dwt70 6.9 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, 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.