Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers · Michigan

Prairie Farms Detroit

Oak Park, MI · ~61 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairie Farms Detroit runs at 408% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Prairie Farms Detroit: 9.0 TCR = 408% of Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairie Farms Detroit safety composite

Prairie Farms Detroit scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Prairie Farms Detroit held a steady TCR band

Prairie Farms Detroit's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.3 in 2016 to 6.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=14.2 · 2018=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Oak Park, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 408% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING WES…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - ALBUQUERQUE NM (0.0 TCR gap)

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Prairie Farms Detroit in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairie Farms Detroit averages 9.0 TCR (408% of the Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Prairie Farms Detroit TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2017=14.2 · 2018=6.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Prairie Farms Detroit falls in its industry

231 Dairy products, frozen, mercha establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Dairy products, frozen, mercha employers in Michigan.

Prairie Farms Detroit (61 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairie Farms Detroit
Prairie Farms Detroit (61 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

Prairie Farms Detroit has more employees than the Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2018 6.4 5.1 5 0 0
2017 14.2 7.1 10 0 0
2016 6.3 3.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · MI · Oak Park

231 Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 37 employers in Oak Park, MI · 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 DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - ALBUQUERQUE NM 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFA DISTRIBUTING WEST - BOISE ID 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winona Foods Inc. - Brookfield 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DFNC - TRF - Thief River Falls - DTI 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sietsema Farms Feeds 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolverine Service Center 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.R. Heineman & Sons, Inc. 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4785_10911 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brilar LLC 1,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkley Building Blocks, Avery Center 782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norup International School 782 FTE
CITY-NEAR Administrative Office Tyndall Center 782 FTE
NAT-TCR 173T/17DD Drivers 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-Abs 0004 0892 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hayfield Feed and Grain 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Illinois Area of Special Education 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MaineGeneral Medical Center - 211 Main Street 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2636-Florida.Fort Lauderdale 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE HomeChoice Partners - 2505 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bellevue 363 61 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: 2018, 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.