Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing · Minnesota

Proliant Dairy - Melrose

Melrose, MN · ~26 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Proliant Dairy - Melrose runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Proliant Dairy - Melrose: 9.2 TCR = 278% of Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Proliant Dairy - Melrose safety composite

Proliant Dairy - Melrose scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Proliant Dairy - Melrose: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 24.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Proliant Dairy - Melrose's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2018 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 24.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Melrose, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 278% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/18
  • PHOTO Muscoda Protein Prod…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Muscoda Protein Products LLP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Proliant Dairy - Melrose in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Proliant Dairy - Melrose averages 9.2 TCR (278% of the Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Proliant Dairy - Melrose TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=16.5 · 2020=24.6 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Proliant Dairy - Melrose falls in its industry

185 Whey, condensed, dried, evapor establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 18 Whey, condensed, dried, evapor employers in Minnesota.

Proliant Dairy - Melrose (26 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Proliant Dairy - Melrose
Proliant Dairy - Melrose (26 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Proliant Dairy - Melrose has fewer employees than the Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2023 7.6 3.8 2 0 0
2022 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2021 7.9 7.9 1 1 0
2020 24.6 24.6 0 6 0
2019 16.5 8.3 4 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · MN · Melrose

185 Whey, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 24 employers in Melrose, MN · 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 Muscoda Protein Products LLP 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant One 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milk Specialties Global Jerome 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SFR 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Becker 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Silverstreak Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Huiras MN 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Egg 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose Plant 714 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose CentraCare Health 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare - Melrose 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose Area Public Schools 251 FTE
NAT-TCR TXA012 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Far West Recycling - Hillsboro 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanctuary at the Oaks 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Flex-O-Glass 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Andy's Professional Services, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skybokx 109 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bellingham Bulk Plant / CL 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Foundry 26 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.