Milk production, dairy cattle · Kansas

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC

Syracuse, KS · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade C.

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC: 3.8 TCR = 84% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC safety composite

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC: 3.1 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2024

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC's TCR rose 7.2 from 3.1 in 2021 to 10.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Syracuse, KS AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO C & A Holsteins
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: C & A Holsteins (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC averages 3.8 TCR (84% 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

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC TCR series: 2021=3.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=10.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 69% 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 #6 safest of 16 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Kansas.

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC (53 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC
Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC (53 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Southwest Plains Dairy, LLC has more 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 10.3 5.9 7 0 0
2023 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.1 3.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · KS · Syracuse

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 5,228 rated employers in Kansas with headcount on file · 4 employers in Syracuse, 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 C & A Holsteins 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stotz Dairy 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rathmourne Dairy 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redtail Ridge Dairy, LLC 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Plains Cattle Company LLC - kismet 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCarthy Building Companies, Inc NBAF 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonic Equipment Company 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boone Brothers Kansas 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frontier Dairy, LLC 1,240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fullmer Cattle Company 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR Syracuse Feedyard 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Piedmont Automotive Products Inc.- Dahlonega 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Vigor Shipyards Inc 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mansfield Plumbing Products- Perrysville 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MEDOC Maine Correctional Center 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE DonahueFavret Contractors, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE RV Associates, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingman Probation 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Paving and Sealing, Inc. 53 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. 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.