Milk production, dairy cattle · Minnesota

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC

Lake City, MN · ~35 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade C.

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC: 5.4 TCR = 119% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC safety composite

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.3

2019→2024

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC injury rate improved

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC's TCR fell 6.3 from 9.4 in 2019 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.4 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Lake City, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 5.4 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/28
  • PHOTO J & R Dairy
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: J & R Dairy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Scotch Prairie Farms LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Scotch Prairie Farms LLC averages 5.4 TCR (119% 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

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC TCR series: 2019=9.4 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=9.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=3 · BLS 4.5

Where Scotch Prairie Farms LLC falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 28 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Minnesota.

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC (35 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Scotch Prairie Farms LLC
Scotch Prairie Farms LLC (35 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Scotch Prairie Farms LLC has fewer employees than the Milk production, dairy cattle median and a lower 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 3.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.1 7.3 4 1 0
2020 6.9 6.9 4 0 0
2019 9.4 9.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · MN · Lake City

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 20 employers in Lake City, 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 J & R Dairy 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jersey Feed / Sunwest Jersey Dairy 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cornerstone Dairy 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LARSON DAIRY, INC. 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dollymount 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genex Farm Systems Melrose 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Dog Power Plant 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shorewood Service Center 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearth & Home Technologies 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake City Plant 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake City 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Lake City 187 FTE
NAT-TCR AHC Campus 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Valley Market Place #54 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Ual Flight Training Center 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Community Wholesale Tire- Peoria 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sabel Steel Baton Rouge 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wichita Brewing Company, LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt Retail Specialties, LLC Lathrop, CA 35 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. 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.