Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro

Mindoro, WI · ~56 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro runs at 299% 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 - Mindoro: 9.9 TCR = 299% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro safety composite

Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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 - Mindoro: 4.1 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2024

Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro's TCR rose 2.6 from 4.1 in 2020 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Mindoro, WI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.9 · 299% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #152/171
  • PHOTO Welcome Dairy, LLC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Welcome Dairy, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro averages 9.9 TCR (299% 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 - Mindoro TCR series: 2020=4.1 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=15.6 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Wisconsin alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #152 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro (56 employees, TCR 9.9) 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 - Mindoro
Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro (56 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Prairie Farms Dairy - Mindoro has fewer 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 6.7 6.7 4 0 0
2023 15.1 15.1 8 0 0
2022 15.6 15.6 9 0 0
2021 7.8 7.8 4 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Mindoro

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin 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 Welcome Dairy, LLC 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sartori Cheese 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennland Pure 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Grove Cheese 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pinnacle Dairy LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pulliam 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Friendship Office 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bachmann Construction Co, Inc 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mindoro 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Northeast Oregon Housing Authority 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2649 - Westwood 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbors at Carroll 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PA012EXM 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Koppers Newsoms 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delano CA 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koppers Eutawville 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Delta Sand & Gravel Co. 56 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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