Milk production, dairy cattle · Wisconsin

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC

Emerald, WI · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC: 7.2 TCR = 161% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC safety composite

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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)
D 7.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC: 9.9 → 10.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2023

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC's TCR rose 0.9 from 9.9 in 2016 to 10.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Emerald, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 161% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #21/33
  • PHOTO Freeland Dairy
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Freeland Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Emerald Sky Dairy LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Emerald Sky Dairy LLC averages 7.2 TCR (161% 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

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC TCR series: 2016=9.9 · 2017=0 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=10.8 · 2021=13.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Emerald Sky Dairy LLC falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 33 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Wisconsin.

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC (19 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Emerald Sky Dairy LLC
Emerald Sky Dairy LLC (19 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Emerald Sky Dairy LLC has fewer 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
2023 10.9 2.7 3 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 13.3 6.6 3 1 0
2019 10.8 3.6 3 0 0
2018 5.8 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 9.9 9.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · WI · Emerald

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Freeland Dairy 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZONNEVELD DAIRIES, INC. 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shop 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ida Gold Farms LLC 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sacia Orchards 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE 007 Cottage Grove Agronomy 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayfield Electric Cooperative 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PREMIER BUILDING SOLUTIONS INC 19 FTE
NAT-TCR Pegasus Steel LLC. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Baumgarten Distributing Co., Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tuttle Bakery 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Homeshield Screens - Ankeny IA 7.2 TCR

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, 2021, 2019, 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.