Milking dairy cattle · Minnesota

Northern Plains Dairy

St Peter, MN · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Plains Dairy runs at 45% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade A.

Northern Plains Dairy: 2.0 TCR = 45% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Plains Dairy safety composite

Northern Plains Dairy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Northern Plains Dairy: 0.0 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2024

Northern Plains Dairy's TCR rose 6.1 from 0.0 in 2022 to 6.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · St Peter, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 45% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #15/28
  • PHOTO ayers farms inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ayers farms inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Plains Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Plains Dairy averages 2.0 TCR (45% of the Milking dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Plains Dairy TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Northern Plains Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 28 Milking dairy cattle employers in Minnesota.

Northern Plains Dairy (30 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Northern Plains Dairy
Northern Plains Dairy (30 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Northern Plains Dairy has fewer employees than the Milking 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
2024 6.1 6.1 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · MN · St Peter

530 Milking dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in St Peter, MN · 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 ayers farms inc 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hermana Dairy, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wakefield Farms LLP 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FRANK N. ROCHA DAIRY L.P. 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nelson Nursery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Westland Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Grow Finish 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE C70 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3331 FAMILY FRESH MARKET (ST PETER, MN) 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-St Peter 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shopko Hometown #611 (St Peter, MN) 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pioneer Bank St Peter 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Super C Group LLC dba Alline Salon Group 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 163006-Griswold | CT | CTG-100 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR A.W. Oakes & Son, Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Securlock Storage 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Charleston, IL 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Packaging Specialties 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altour- Los Angeles 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE EJ Muskegon Composites 30 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.