Milk production, dairy cattle · Michigan
Prairie Farms Dairy
Battle Creek, MI · ~221 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 6.3
- Avg TCR
- 4.5
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
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.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 6.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 4.5
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 93
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Prairie Farms Dairy's OSHA Total Case Rate of 6.3 to the Milk production, dairy cattle BLS benchmark of 4.5 (141% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Prairie Farms Dairy's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 4.5 industry benchmark.
Where Prairie Farms Dairy falls in its industry
567 Milk production, dairy cattle establishmentsSafer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.
Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 16 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Michigan.
Trend analysis for Prairie Farms Dairy
Between 2016 and 2023, Prairie Farms Dairy's Total Case Rate worsened from 6.8 to 7.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 16% increase across 7 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 4.8, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 7.9, a spread of 3.1 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 5 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 5 reporting years, Prairie Farms Dairy recorded 93 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 93 injuries shown on this page for Prairie Farms Dairy are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 112120 - Milk production, dairy cattle.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2023)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
12 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 629,879 hours worked = 3.81 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Prairie Farms Dairy (this establishment) | 6.33 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg |
| Milk production, dairy cattle industry avg | 4.50 | BLS IIF, NAICS 112120 |
| Michigan state avg (all industries) | 4.73 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Prairie Farms Dairy to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2023: 25 reportable incidents · 25 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 17 reportable incidents · 17 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 19 reportable incidents · 19 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 14 reportable incidents · 14 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 18 reportable incidents · 18 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7.9 | 3.8 | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 17 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 6.9 | 4.4 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 6.8 | 3.0 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Prairie Farms Dairy's reported OSHA injury record versus its Milk production, dairy cattle peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 141% of the Milk production, dairy cattle benchmark, Prairie Farms Dairy reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Milk production, dairy cattle sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.