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

Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City

Granite City, IL · ~162 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City runs at 233% 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 Granite City: 7.7 TCR = 233% of Milk processing (e.g., bottling, homogenizing, pasteurizing, vitaminizing) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City safety composite

Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.8

2023→2024

Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City injury rate improved

Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City's TCR fell 6.8 from 11.1 in 2023 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=11.1 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · Granite City, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 233% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #15/20
  • PHOTO Garelick NY - Rensse…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garelick NY - Rensselaer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City averages 7.7 TCR (233% 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 Granite City TCR series: 2023=11.1 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City falls in its industry

457 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #15 safest of 20 Milk processing (e.g., bottlin employers in Illinois.

Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City (162 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Granite City
Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City (162 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Prairie Farms Dairy Granite City has more 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
2024 4.3 3.2 8 0 0
2023 11.1 6.7 16 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · IL · Granite City

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 · 80 employers in Granite City, 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 Garelick NY - Rensselaer 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0045-0045-08404 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Platteville Plant 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Dairy Foods USA, LLC 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Miner Enterprises 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG CHI 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Landmarc Environmental Systems, LLC 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA IL South Holland Plant 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite City Works 976 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amsted Rail Company Inc 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite City Plant 563 FTE
CITY-NEAR icon Mechanical LLC 448 FTE
NAT-TCR Gulf Distributing Company of Alabama 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Villara-Manteca 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Advex Corporation 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Gunite Specialists, Inc 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forest Haven Nursing Home 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chatham Village 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnolia Marketplace LLC 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niagara Falls 162 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.