Dairy cattle farming · Kansas

Royal Farms Dairy LLC

Garden City, KS · ~71 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Royal Farms Dairy LLC runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dairy cattle farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Royal Farms Dairy LLC: 6.6 TCR = 146% of Dairy cattle farming BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Royal Farms Dairy LLC safety composite

Royal Farms Dairy LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 60% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2016→2023

Royal Farms Dairy LLC injury rate improved

Royal Farms Dairy LLC's TCR fell 3.5 from 10.0 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.0 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=6.0 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=2.9 · 2023=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Garden City, KS ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 146% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #10/16
  • PHOTO Scipio Springs Dairy
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scipio Springs Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Royal Farms Dairy LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Royal Farms Dairy LLC averages 6.6 TCR (146% of the Dairy cattle farming BLS benchmark).

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

Royal Farms Dairy LLC TCR series: 2016=10 · 2017=6.4 · 2018=6 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=2.9 · 2023=6.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Royal Farms Dairy LLC falls in its industry

530 Dairy cattle farming establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kansas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 16 Dairy cattle farming employers in Kansas.

Royal Farms Dairy LLC (71 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 Royal Farms Dairy LLC
Royal Farms Dairy LLC (71 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Royal Farms Dairy LLC has more employees than the Dairy cattle farming 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
2023 6.5 1.9 6 1 0
2021 2.9 1.9 3 0 0
2020 2.9 1.9 3 0 0
2019 11.3 3.8 12 0 0
2018 6.0 4.0 4 2 0
2017 6.4 2.1 6 0 0
2016 10.0 3.3 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · KS · Garden City

530 Dairy cattle farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 84 employers in Garden City, KS · 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 Scipio Springs Dairy 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hudson Dairy, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mapleview Dairy LLC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midland Farms 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE LASI-Bern 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Garden City Container 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Sustainable Ingredients, LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Altium Packaging - Wichita 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Catherine Hospital 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR 652 344 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 652 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR 615-00005 148 FTE
NAT-TCR Boston Fire Sprinkler Protection Co., LLC 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 102706 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100064 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100038 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100701 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE M Pineda Farming Co 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Rehabilitation & Living Center 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaines West Michigan Co 71 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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