Animal Feed Manufacturer · Wisconsin

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill

Black River Falls, WI · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill runs at 63% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Animal Feed Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade B.

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill: 2.4 TCR = 63% of Animal Feed Manufacturer BLS 3.9 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill safety composite

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill: 0.0 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2023

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill's TCR rose 6.3 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Black River Falls, WI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 63% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #14/53
  • PHOTO Lewisburg East, OH
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lewisburg East, OH (0.0 TCR gap)

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Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill averages 2.4 TCR (63% of the Animal Feed Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill TCR series: 2016=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.8 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=6.3 · BLS 3.9

Where Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill falls in its industry

756 Animal Feed Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 53 Animal Feed Manufacturer employers in Wisconsin.

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill (36 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill
Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill (36 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Black River Falls Purina Feed Mill has more employees than the Animal Feed Manufacturer median and a lower 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
2023 6.3 3.2 2 0 0
2022 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2020 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · WI · Black River Falls

756 Animal Feed Manufacturer employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 26 employers in Black River Falls, WI · 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 Lewisburg East, OH 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DAL 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heavener Feed Mill 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Simplot Company-WSI Caldwell 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rolling Hills Diary Farm, LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE T & T Quality Cutting LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Barron Electric Cooperative 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR MILLIS TRANSFER LLC 961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lunda Construction 578 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black River Memorial Hospital 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ho-Chunk Gaming Black River Falls and Tomah 285 FTE
NAT-TCR Security and Fire Electronics Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rice Street Service Center-SB 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Quikrete - Mem 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mkg of Oak Grove 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moton Early Childhood Center 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shorewood Service Center-RB 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE La Jolla Office (0553) 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexander's Mobility Services - Minneapolis 36 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.