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
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).
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
- Manufacturing
Manufacturing : Hilbert
5.9 TCR
- BelGioioso Che
BelGioioso Cheese - Vine Road
5.9 TCR
- This site
Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery
5.8 TCR
- LaClare Creame
LaClare Creamery, LLC
5.8 TCR
- PINE RIVER PRE
PINE RIVER PRE-PACK, INC
5.8 TCR
What this shows Prairie Farms Dairy - Shullsburg Creamery averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).
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) establishmentsSafer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.
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 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 →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.