Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing · Kentucky

Prairie Farms Dairy

N. America > Usa > Kentucky > Pulaski County > Somerset, KY · ~198 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Farms Dairy runs at 345% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Prairie Farms Dairy: 11.4 TCR = 345% of Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Farms Dairy safety composite

Prairie Farms Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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: 9.2 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2020

Prairie Farms Dairy's TCR rose 2.2 from 9.2 in 2018 to 11.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311511 · N. America > Usa > Kentucky > Pulaski County > Somerset, KY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 345% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #10/10
  • PHOTO HP Hood, LLC- Barre,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 86 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HP Hood, LLC- Barre, VT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Farms Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Farms Dairy averages 11.4 TCR (345% of the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie Farms Dairy TCR series: 2018=9.2 · 2019=13.6 · 2020=11.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Prairie Farms Dairy falls in its industry

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), m establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 10 Milk, fluid (except canned), m employers in Kentucky.

Prairie Farms Dairy (198 employees, TCR 11.4) 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
Prairie Farms Dairy (198 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 140 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Prairie Farms Dairy has more employees than the Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturi 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
2020 11.4 6.8 30 0 0
2019 13.6 8.8 34 0 0
2018 9.2 7.1 22 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311511 · KY · N. America > Usa > Kentucky > Pulaski County > Somerset

457 Milk, fluid (except canned), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 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 HP Hood, LLC- Barre, VT 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - Rochester 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hiland Dairy Omaha Plant 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Crest Dairy, Inc 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jim Smith Contracting Co., LLC 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tom Drexler Plumbing, Air & Electric 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Champion Pet Foods 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern Wholesale 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prairie Farms Dairy Manufacturing 86 FTE
NAT-TCR Martin Cabinet 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Production Plant 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverview 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR T583 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE ESAB Group - Hanover 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rivega, LLC. 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michels Power- PA 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Glebe 198 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: 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.