Milk production, dairy cattle · Michigan

Country Dairy, Inc.

New Era, MI · ~80 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Country Dairy, Inc. runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

Country Dairy, Inc.: 8.9 TCR = 198% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Country Dairy, Inc. safety composite

Country Dairy, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−12.5

2016→2024

Country Dairy, Inc. injury rate improved

Country Dairy, Inc.'s TCR fell 12.5 from 16.7 in 2016 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.7 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=7.8 · 2020=6.6 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · New Era, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.9 · 198% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO LDF Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LDF Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Country Dairy, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Country Dairy, Inc. averages 8.9 TCR (198% 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

Country Dairy, Inc. TCR series: 2016=16.7 · 2017=9.1 · 2018=7.8 · 2020=6.6 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Country Dairy, Inc. falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 15 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Michigan.

Country Dairy, Inc. (80 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 Country Dairy, Inc.
Country Dairy, Inc. (80 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Country Dairy, Inc. has more 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 4.2 1.4 3 0 0
2023 9.8 9.8 6 0 0
2022 8.2 2.7 6 0 0
2020 6.6 4.0 5 0 0
2018 7.8 1.9 8 0 0
2017 9.1 5.0 11 0 0
2016 16.7 10.5 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · MI · New Era

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 4 employers in New Era, MI · 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 LDF Inc 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MasCow Dairy, LLC 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR De Groot Dairies 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shady Acres Dairy LP. 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Area Energy Center 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howell SC 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE AL'S ASPHALT PAVING CO 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Superior Electric Tri County, LLC 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Burnette Foods, Inc. New Era Facility 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR NEW ERA OFFICE 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Country Dairy Farm Store 26 FTE
NAT-TCR XSX 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Scotland Regional Hospice of NC 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. - Huntingdon, District 1 Office 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ADMO, Inc. 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1999 Marcus Ave 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imperial Systems 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE KHO 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE XPH 80 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, 2020, 2018, 2017, 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.