Milk production, dairy cattle · Colorado

High Plains Dairy

Gill, CO · ~178 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

High Plains Dairy runs at 150% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

High Plains Dairy: 6.7 TCR = 150% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

High Plains Dairy safety composite

High Plains Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−2.1

2016→2022

High Plains Dairy injury rate improved

High Plains Dairy's TCR fell 2.1 from 5.4 in 2016 to 3.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.4 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Gill, CO ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 150% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO Mapleview Cattle Com…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 93 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mapleview Cattle Company, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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High Plains Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows High Plains Dairy averages 6.7 TCR (150% 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

High Plains Dairy TCR series: 2016=5.4 · 2018=7.3 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=7.3 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where High Plains Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Colorado alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 16 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Colorado.

High Plains Dairy (178 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 High Plains Dairy
High Plains Dairy (178 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

High 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
2022 3.3 3.0 9 0 0
2021 6.5 6.5 16 1 0
2020 7.3 6.9 14 3 0
2019 10.5 7.9 24 0 0
2018 7.3 5.3 19 0 0
2016 5.4 4.9 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · CO · Gill

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,007 rated employers in Colorado with headcount on file · 4 employers in Gill, CO · 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 Mapleview Cattle Company, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kasper Land and Cattle LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Veeman Dairy, LLLP 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Williams Family Dairy, LLC 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Platteville Plant 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colorado Doorways, Inc. 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4377 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE CO - Englewood 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Plains Complex 187 FTE
CITY-NEAR Platteville Dairy 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Little Calf Ranch 15 FTE
NAT-TCR 141900-Hilo Po 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 056997-Sra-Carrier Anx 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 056946-Sbc-Goleta Br 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 491190-Cedar City Po 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 2073-SW-20730075-CS-SW 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2967-OH08 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Office 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE 546524-Pasco Po 178 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.