Dairy cattle farming · Kansas

Noble Dairy, LLC.

Garden City, KS · ~28 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Noble Dairy, LLC. runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy cattle farming workplace, earning a grade F.

Noble Dairy, LLC.: 9.3 TCR = 207% of Dairy cattle farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Noble Dairy, LLC. safety composite

Noble Dairy, LLC. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

−4.5

2016→2023

Noble Dairy, LLC. injury rate improved

Noble Dairy, LLC.'s TCR fell 4.5 from 8.6 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 17.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.6 · 2017=17.1 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=13.6 · 2023=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Garden City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.3 · 207% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #14/16
  • PHOTO Larson Acres, Inc.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Larson Acres, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Noble Dairy, LLC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Noble Dairy, LLC. averages 9.3 TCR (207% of the Dairy cattle farming BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Noble Dairy, LLC. TCR series: 2016=8.6 · 2017=17.1 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=9.3 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=13.6 · 2023=4 · BLS 4.5

Where Noble Dairy, LLC. falls in its industry

530 Dairy cattle farming establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 16 Dairy cattle farming employers in Kansas.

Noble Dairy, LLC. (28 employees, TCR 9.3) 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 Noble Dairy, LLC.
Noble Dairy, LLC. (28 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Noble Dairy, LLC. has fewer employees than the Dairy cattle farming 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 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2021 13.6 11.4 6 0 0
2020 7.6 5.1 3 0 0
2019 9.3 4.7 4 0 0
2018 4.9 2.4 2 0 0
2017 17.1 2.4 7 0 0
2016 8.6 6.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · KS · Garden City

530 Dairy cattle farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 84 employers in Garden City, KS · 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 Larson Acres, Inc. 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wichita Kansas 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danish Dairy LLC 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR JR Dairy 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brookover Ranch Feed Yard 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Satanta Farms North #2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hefier Source, LLC 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookover Feed Yard Scott City 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Catherine Hospital 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR 652 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 652 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 615-00005 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Cornerstone Restoration Services, LLC 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mackenthun's Supermarket Inc 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Orchards Store 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HG610 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gilb Landscaping, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unique Fabrications 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millennium Recycling Inc 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seven Oaks Millwork, Inc. 28 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 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.