Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Iowa

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana

Luana, IA · ~186 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana safety composite

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−5.9

2020→2024

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana injury rate improved

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana's TCR fell 5.9 from 11.3 in 2020 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.3 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=5.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Luana, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Rumiano Cheese Company
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 71 inj
  • SIZE ~186 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rumiano Cheese Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana TCR series: 2020=11.3 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=5.9 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Iowa.

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana (186 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana
Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana (186 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Prairie Farms Dairy - Luana has more employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 5.3 4.9 11 0 0
2023 5.9 4.4 12 0 0
2022 7.9 7.9 16 0 0
2021 5.5 4.6 10 2 0
2020 11.3 9.3 22 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · IA · Luana

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa 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 Rumiano Cheese Company 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prairie Farms Dairy - Faribault 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bongards Creameries Central 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Greenway 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 6344 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe County Hospital and Clinics 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country View 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE H&H Trailers 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luana 135 FTE
NAT-TCR MKE 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vollmer Excavation, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Multiwall Sheridan a division of Signode Industrial Group 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Shaw Industries, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Margaritaville Resort Orlando 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bernatello's Pizza, Inc 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1955 - Orange 186 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2868 - Richmond Grand Pkwy SW 186 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.