Milk production, dairy cattle · South Dakota

Golden Dakota Farms LLC

Elkton, SD · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Golden Dakota Farms LLC runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade B.

Golden Dakota Farms LLC: 2.7 TCR = 61% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Golden Dakota Farms LLC safety composite

Golden Dakota Farms LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Golden Dakota Farms LLC: 2.0 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2018

Golden Dakota Farms LLC's TCR rose 1.5 from 2.0 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Elkton, SD AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.7 · 61% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Greenwood dairy Farm…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greenwood dairy Farm LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Golden Dakota Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Golden Dakota Farms LLC averages 2.7 TCR (61% 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

Golden Dakota Farms LLC TCR series: 2016=2 · 2018=3.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Golden Dakota Farms LLC falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in South Dakota.

Golden Dakota Farms LLC (36 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 Golden Dakota Farms LLC
Golden Dakota Farms LLC (36 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Golden Dakota Farms LLC has fewer employees than the Milk production, dairy cattle median and a lower 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
2018 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2016 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · SD · Elkton

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 6 employers in Elkton, SD · 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 Greenwood dairy Farm LLC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spruce Haven Farm, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR W.W. Patterson, Inc. 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aurora-Oakwood Dairy, LLC 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Montana Dakota Utilities - Rapid City, SD 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jensen Masonry, Inc. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE PrairieSons 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ingredients - Cheese - Pollock SD 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkton 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin City Fan Companies. Ltd. Eltkon 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Deer Creek Station 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kodiak 21 FTE
NAT-TCR G & W Equipment - Greensboro 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lasko Products LLC PA 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MSF Electric,Inc. -North Division 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stadium Food and Beverage 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Evergreen Place - Litchfield 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Butler Used Auto Parts, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE KOCH Mechanical Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE F/V Unimak 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: 2018, 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.