Dairy Farm · California

West Star North Dairy

Buttonwillow, CA · ~42 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Star North Dairy runs at 256% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy Farm workplace, earning a grade F.

West Star North Dairy: 11.5 TCR = 256% of Dairy Farm BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Star North Dairy safety composite

West Star North Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

2018→2021

West Star North Dairy injury rate improved

West Star North Dairy's TCR fell 2.6 from 8.2 in 2018 to 5.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 30.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=8.2 · 2019=30.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 256% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #156/205
  • PHOTO Hollandia Farms North
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hollandia Farms North (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Star North Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Star North Dairy averages 11.5 TCR (256% of the Dairy Farm BLS benchmark).

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

West Star North Dairy TCR series: 2018=8.2 · 2019=30.6 · 2020=1.6 · 2021=5.6 · BLS 4.5

Where West Star North Dairy falls in its industry

530 Dairy Farm establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #156 safest of 205 Dairy Farm employers in California.

West Star North Dairy (42 employees, TCR 11.5) 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 West Star North Dairy
West Star North Dairy (42 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

West Star North Dairy has more employees than the Dairy Farm 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
2021 5.6 5.6 3 0 0
2020 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2019 30.6 30.6 4 0 0
2018 8.2 5.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CA · Buttonwillow

530 Dairy Farm employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 13 employers in Buttonwillow, 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 Hollandia Farms North 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cowifornia Dreamin' Dairy 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith Valley Dairy Corp. 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milk River Dairy 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Quad H 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE CJJ Farming, Inc 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company LLC 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connell Ranch 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reyes Contracting Inc 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandridge Partners,LP 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goyenetche Dairy LLC 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Cross Dairy 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Premier Concrete Construction LLC 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Havenwood Block 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison Office - 363 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Atrium 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4769-752-Pottery Barn 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lafayette Subaru 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Augusta Sash & Door 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston FS (SSS, CSS) 42 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: 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.