Milk production, dairy cattle · Nebraska

Prairieland Dairy

Firth, NE · ~32 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Prairieland Dairy runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade F.

Prairieland Dairy: 11.1 TCR = 246% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Prairieland Dairy safety composite

Prairieland Dairy scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

Prairieland Dairy: 9.8 → 14.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Prairieland Dairy's TCR rose 4.4 from 9.8 in 2022 to 14.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Firth, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 246% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Tollcrest Dairy
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tollcrest Dairy (0.1 TCR gap)

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Prairieland Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Prairieland Dairy averages 11.1 TCR (246% of the Milk production, dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

Prairieland Dairy TCR series: 2022=9.8 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=14.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Prairieland Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Nebraska.

Prairieland Dairy (32 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Prairieland Dairy
Prairieland Dairy (32 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Prairieland Dairy has fewer employees than the Milk production, dairy cattle median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 14.1 0.0 5 0 0
2023 9.3 3.1 3 0 0
2022 9.8 9.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · NE · Firth

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 3 employers in Firth, NE · 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 Tollcrest Dairy 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oasis Holstein Dairy 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rollin Valley Farms 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stein Farms LLC 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bluebird Nursery Inc 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Midwest Electric Cooperative Corporation 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE BHGNE - Kearney (NE053) 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE 103932 - The Yard 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Firth 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norris School District 160 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Food Bank of the Rockies 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayfront Medical Ctr 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Neighbors, LLC. 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Txmid - Midland 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Woods at Merrimack 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maple Brook Terrace 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fountain Crest 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creekside Pines 32 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.

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