Pasteurizing milk · Illinois

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.

Olney, IL · ~98 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. runs at 333% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pasteurizing milk workplace, earning a grade F.

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.: 11.0 TCR = 333% of Pasteurizing milk BLS 3.3 · 2y 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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

−7.7

2019→2023

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. injury rate improved

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.'s TCR fell 7.7 from 14.9 in 2019 to 7.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.9 · 2023=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 333% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #17/20
  • PHOTO Hastings Creamery LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hastings Creamery LLC (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 11.0 TCR (333% of the Pasteurizing milk 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=14.9 · 2023=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. falls in its industry

457 Pasteurizing milk establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #17 safest of 20 Pasteurizing milk employers in Illinois.

Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. (98 employees, TCR 11.0) 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. (98 employees, TCR 11.0) 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 Pasteurizing milk 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
2023 7.1 5.3 8 0 0
2019 14.9 2.8 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · IL · Olney

457 Pasteurizing milk employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 37 employers in Olney, 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 Hastings Creamery LLC 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR GH Dairy- GH Processing 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR UNC Buffalo Plant & Distribution 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - West Seneca 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE EC&R Services, LLC-Wind Chicago 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Marion 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Shore Water Reclamation District 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 6059 933 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6059 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richland County CUSD #1 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 254 232 FTE
NAT-TCR JAXPORT 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trego/Dugan Aviation, Inc Ind 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0550 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Trilogy Home Healthcare - Orlando 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Johnsbury #141 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chase Elementary School 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yerecic Label Company, Inc. 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stellar Printing, Inc 98 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, 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.