Dairy cattle farming · California

Vander Woude Dairy

Merced, CA · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vander Woude Dairy runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dairy cattle farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Vander Woude Dairy: 8.2 TCR = 182% of Dairy cattle farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vander Woude Dairy safety composite

Vander Woude Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 Woude Dairy: 4.3 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Vander Woude Dairy's TCR rose 4.6 from 4.3 in 2018 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 8.2 · 182% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #117/205
  • PHOTO Four J Farms
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Four J Farms (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vander Woude Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vander Woude Dairy averages 8.2 TCR (182% of the Dairy cattle farming BLS benchmark).

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

Vander Woude Dairy TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2019=8.2 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=9.1 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Vander Woude Dairy falls in its industry

530 Dairy cattle farming establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #117 safest of 205 Dairy cattle farming employers in California.

Vander Woude Dairy (33 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 Woude Dairy
Vander Woude Dairy (33 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Vander Woude 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 8.8 8.8 4 0 0
2021 9.1 9.1 4 0 0
2020 10.6 7.9 4 0 0
2019 8.2 2.1 4 0 0
2018 4.3 4.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Merced

530 Dairy cattle farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, 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 Four J Farms 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dairy 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bos Dairy, LLC 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Newberry Farms, LLC 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tutti Frutti Farms 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL CENTRO 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS 18 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Vista Farms LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Arc Electric & Lighting Corporation 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hahn Manufacturing Company 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 508PLY 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohioans Home Healthcare Inc 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 300524-Indianapolis 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bryan Tool & Machining, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Central Stamping, Inc. 33 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.