Dairy cattle farming · Minnesota

United Dairy, Westland Dairy

Richmond, MN · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

United Dairy, Westland Dairy runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dairy cattle farming workplace, earning a grade D.

United Dairy, Westland Dairy: 7.2 TCR = 159% of Dairy cattle farming BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

United Dairy, Westland Dairy safety composite

United Dairy, Westland Dairy scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

United Dairy, Westland Dairy: 7.0 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2022

United Dairy, Westland Dairy's TCR rose 1.0 from 7.0 in 2016 to 8.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Richmond, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 159% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #25/28
  • PHOTO Scarrow Dairy Farms,…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Scarrow Dairy Farms, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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United Dairy, Westland Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows United Dairy, Westland Dairy averages 7.2 TCR (159% of the Dairy cattle farming BLS benchmark).

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

United Dairy, Westland Dairy TCR series: 2016=7 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=12.8 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=8 · BLS 4.5

Where United Dairy, Westland Dairy falls in its industry

530 Dairy cattle farming establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #25 safest of 28 Dairy cattle farming employers in Minnesota.

United Dairy, Westland Dairy (30 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 United Dairy, Westland Dairy
United Dairy, Westland Dairy (30 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

United Dairy, Westland Dairy has fewer 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
2022 8.0 2.7 3 0 0
2021 5.4 2.7 2 0 0
2020 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2019 12.8 7.7 5 0 0
2018 7.2 4.8 3 0 0
2016 7.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · MN · Richmond

530 Dairy cattle farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Richmond, 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 Scarrow Dairy Farms, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR DJ Dairy, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freeland Dairy 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ZONNEVELD DAIRIES, INC. 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nelson Nursery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Plains Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Grow Finish 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE C70 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Design Ready Controls - RIC 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Richmond 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richmond Elementary 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD 750 Rocori Richmond Elementary 22 FTE
NAT-TCR 342982-Farmington Po 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HP Hood LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Blaise Alexander KIA 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 566280-Oshkosh Po 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Warner Dairy 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2967-CO64 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3495-11DA609 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recology Ashland - Valley View 30 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.