Milk production, dairy cattle · Michigan

Dakota Plains Dairy

Grand Rapids, MI · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota Plains Dairy runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

Dakota Plains Dairy: 7.6 TCR = 170% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Plains Dairy safety composite

Dakota Plains Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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 7.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−9.1

2022→2024

Dakota Plains Dairy injury rate improved

Dakota Plains Dairy's TCR fell 9.1 from 14.5 in 2022 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=14.5 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.6 · 170% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO Lost Trail Dairy, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lost Trail Dairy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakota Plains Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Plains Dairy averages 7.6 TCR (170% 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

Dakota Plains Dairy TCR series: 2022=14.5 · 2023=3 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 4.5

Where Dakota Plains Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #13 safest of 15 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Michigan.

Dakota Plains Dairy (37 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 Dakota Plains Dairy
Dakota Plains Dairy (37 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Dakota Plains Dairy 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 5.4 3.6 3 0 0
2023 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2022 14.5 10.9 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · MI · Grand Rapids

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, 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 Lost Trail Dairy, LLC 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Temple Creek Dairy 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mellema Dairy and Cattle 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skyline Dairy LLC 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Full Circle Dairy 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE East River Genetic Services LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Iron Mountain Hydro 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan E Karn 3&4 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR California Tool and Welding Supply 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sewer Department - East/West Treatment Plants 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HSHS Holy Family Hospital 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Eveland's Inc. 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Perry-McCall Construction, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE JPW Industries 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Osborne Construction Company 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concept Imaging Group- Richmond 37 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. 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.