Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing · Illinois

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville

Carlinville, IL · ~96 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville runs at 513% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville: 16.9 TCR = 513% of Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville safety composite

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

F

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville: 16.5 → 17.4 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 17.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.98× in 2017

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville's TCR rose 0.9 from 16.5 in 2016 to 17.4 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Carlinville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.9 · 513% of ind

  • DART 16.5 DART
  • RANK #20/20
  • PHOTO 6962-SWY-0045-0045-0…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 6962-SWY-0045-0045-08416 (0.4 TCR gap)

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Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville averages 16.9 TCR (513% of the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville TCR series: 2016=16.5 · 2017=17.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville falls in its industry

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 20 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin employers in Illinois.

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville (96 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville
Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville (96 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Prairie Farms Dairy - Carlinville has fewer employees than the Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2017 17.4 16.5 20 0 0
2016 16.5 7.8 19 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · IL · Carlinville

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Carlinville, IL · 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 6962-SWY-0045-0045-08416 17.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Buffalo 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miami Florida Facility 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience UTI1 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLM Midwest 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Toro Construction Corp 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lytle Electric Company 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carlinville Area Hospital 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR CUSD#1 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 334 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR 334 142 FTE
NAT-TCR Tualatin (Ortua) 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nampa Center (Idnam) 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 00394-SR74 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Slayton JR/SR High School 16.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S East Hartford, Ct 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3311 Capital Boulevard 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Praters 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Windsor - Aldi 96 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.