Milking dairy cattle · Indiana

Oak Basin Dairy

Rensselaer, IN · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oak Basin Dairy runs at 43% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade A.

Oak Basin Dairy: 1.9 TCR = 43% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oak Basin Dairy safety composite

Oak Basin Dairy scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

Oak Basin Dairy: 0.0 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Oak Basin Dairy's TCR rose 3.9 from 0.0 in 2022 to 3.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Rensselaer, IN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.9 · 43% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/12
  • PHOTO Sunnyside Farms, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunnyside Farms, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oak Basin Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oak Basin Dairy averages 1.9 TCR (43% of the Milking dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

Oak Basin Dairy TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=3.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Oak Basin Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 12 Milking dairy cattle employers in Indiana.

Oak Basin Dairy (35 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 Oak Basin Dairy
Oak Basin Dairy (35 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Oak Basin 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
2023 3.9 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · IN · Rensselaer

530 Milking dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 33 employers in Rensselaer, IN · 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 Sunnyside Farms, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Faria Farms, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PATERSON WA (WATTS DAIRY) 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR High Island Dairy 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crawfordsville LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2164-Evansville, IN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2527-Windfall, IN 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parke County Rural Electric Membership Corporation 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rensselaer IN 245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jasper County Government 243 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donaldson Company - Rensselaer, IN 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Talbert Manufacturing, Inc. 183 FTE
NAT-TCR Gaudelli Bros Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Machine Shop, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Martera - Pittsburgh 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR International Aireko CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wooster Svc Bldg 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southwestern 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schemm Electric Co Inc 35 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.