Acidophilus milk manufacturing · Illinois

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc

Carbondale, IL · ~44 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Acidophilus milk manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc: 5.7 TCR = 173% of Acidophilus milk manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc safety composite

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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, Inc: 5.8 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.58× in 2024

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc's TCR rose 3.2 from 5.8 in 2019 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 173% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #11/20
  • PHOTO 2453-00060351-60351
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2453-00060351-60351 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc averages 5.7 TCR (173% of the Acidophilus milk manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc TCR series: 2019=5.8 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=6.2 · 2024=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc falls in its industry

457 Acidophilus milk manufacturing establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #11 safest of 20 Acidophilus milk manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc (44 employees, TCR 5.7) 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, Inc
Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc (44 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc has fewer employees than the Acidophilus milk manufacturing 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 9.0 9.0 4 1 0
2022 6.2 4.1 3 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2019 5.8 5.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · IL · Carbondale

457 Acidophilus milk manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 67 employers in Carbondale, 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 2453-00060351-60351 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Technology 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 80645-MILK PLANT-SA 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Danzeisen Dairy-Laveen 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2570-Thomasboro, IL (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative Paxton Headquarters 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Elec. Coop. Paxton Heaquarters 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southern Illinois University Carbondale 6,287 FTE
CITY-NEAR Memorial Hospital of Carbondale 1,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carbondale 824 FTE
CITY-NEAR System Office 387 FTE
NAT-TCR Open Door Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin Trucking, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR McDonald's of Altavista 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Detroit Commissary 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heat Treating Services Plant 2 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Republic Waste Services of Texas LTD 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Top Bingo 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plains Art Museum 44 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, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.