Milk production, dairy cattle · Michigan

Prairie Farms Dairy

Name: Prairie Farms Dairy Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Battle Creek, MI · ~221 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.3
Avg TCR: 4.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Prairie Farms Dairy runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

Prairie Farms Dairy: 6.3 TCR = 141% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Farms Dairy safety composite

Prairie Farms Dairy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Prairie Farms Dairy: 6.8 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2023

Prairie Farms Dairy's TCR rose 1.1 from 6.8 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Battle Creek, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 141% of ind

DART 3.8 DART
RANK #10/15
PHOTO Milk Source, LLC
BOOK 5y book
INJ 93 inj
SIZE ~221 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Milk Source, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.4
Sunnyside Dair

6.4
This site

6.3
Newhouse Dairy

6.3
Hilarides Dair

6.3

What this shows Prairie Farms Dairy averages 6.3 TCR (141% of the Milk production, dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

Prairie Farms Dairy TCR series: 2016=6.8 · 2017=5.1 · 2020=6.9 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=7.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Prairie Farms Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 15 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Michigan.

Prairie Farms Dairy (221 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Prairie Farms Dairy has more employees than the Milk production, dairy cattle median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2023	7.9	3.8	25
2022	4.8	4.8	17
2020	6.9	4.4	19
2017	5.1	4.0	14
2016	6.8	3.0	18

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · MI · Battle Creek

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 161 employers in Battle Creek, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Milk Source, LLC	KAUKAUNA, WI	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sunnyside Dairy, LLC	SUNNYSIDE, WA	6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Newhouse Dairy	BAKERSFIELD, CA	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hilarides Dairy	LINDSAY, CA	6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Indian Summer	LUDINGTON	221 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Witzenmann USA	TROY	221 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Meijer 243	CLINTON TWP	221 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2033 - Allen Park	ALLEN PARK	221 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Denso Manufacturing of Michigan	Battle Creek	2,702 FTE
CITY-NEAR	BRONSON BATTLE CREEK	Battle Creek	1,530 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Battle Creek HQ Corporate Office	Battle Creek	1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR	I I Stanley Co., Inc.	Battle Creek	729 FTE
NAT-TCR	Forest Park	Cincinnati, OH	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Heinz Mechanical Industries	Clackamas, OR	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Life Care Center of Greeley	Greeley, CO	6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Melbourne Regional Medical Center	Melbourne, FL	6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Hou1-Dwh-Nhc/Houston Div	Houston, TX	221 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Eac 6220 Virgina Paving Company	Norfolk, VA	221 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Mitchell County Hospital District	Colorado City, TX	221 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stewart Distribution	Blackshear, GA	221 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, 2022, 2020, 2017, 2016. 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.