Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · Wisconsin

Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery

Shullsburg, WI · ~94 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery safety composite

Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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 - Shullsburg Creamery: 7.4 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2024

Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery's TCR rose 0.8 from 7.4 in 2022 to 8.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #92/171
  • PHOTO LaClare Creamery, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LaClare Creamery, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery averages 5.8 TCR (176% 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 - Shullsburg Creamery TCR series: 2022=7.4 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #92 safest of 171 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in Wisconsin.

Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery (94 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 - Shullsburg Creamery
Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery (94 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery 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 8.2 7.1 7 0 0
2023 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2022 7.4 7.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · WI · Shullsburg

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,834 rated employers in Wisconsin with headcount on file · 8 employers in Shullsburg, WI · 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 LaClare Creamery, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, INC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing : Hilbert 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BelGioioso Cheese - Vine Road 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Faulks Bros. Construction, Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fireline Sprinkler, LLC 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wall-Tech Inc. 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernatello's Pizza, Inc. - Kaukauna Manufacturing 94 FTE
CITY-NEAR Creamery 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR White Hill 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR White Hill Cheese 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truck Country - Shullsburg 54 FTE
NAT-TCR 10671 Sherman Oaks 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingery Steel Fabricators, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR VA038 Martinsville Container 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City- South 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE DDL-MN 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dhaliwal Pharmaceuticals Labs 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE McLean Packaging Corp. 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Endurance Logistics LLC 94 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.