Milk production, dairy cattle · Indiana

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC

Fair Oaks, IN · ~92 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Milk production, dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade D.

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC: 8.3 TCR = 186% of Milk production, dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC safety composite

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC: 8.9 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 18.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2024

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC's TCR rose 2.2 from 8.9 in 2016 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 18.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Fair Oaks, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.3 · 186% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO Friesian Farms
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 69 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Friesian Farms (0.1 TCR gap)

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Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC averages 8.3 TCR (186% 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

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=18.5 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=13.3 · 2020=2 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC falls in its industry

530 Milk production, dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 12 Milk production, dairy cattle employers in Indiana.

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC (92 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC
Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC (92 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Windy Ridge Dairy, LLC has more employees than the Milk production, dairy cattle 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
2024 11.1 2.0 11 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2021 8.6 5.2 5 0 0
2020 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2019 13.3 0.9 14 0 0
2018 10.3 1.0 10 0 0
2017 18.5 3.3 17 0 0
2016 8.9 3.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · IN · Fair Oaks

530 Milk production, dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 7 employers in Fair Oaks, IN · 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 Friesian Farms 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tidy View Dairy, LLC 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Double Creek Dairy 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bos Dairy, LLC 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riverstart III Solar Farm 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Continental Electric Company 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Indy Containerboard Hartford City Mill 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monosol US Corporate Office 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fair Oaks Farms Management, LLC 304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ruan Logistics Corp T391 RLC 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ruan Transport Corporation T-391 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herrema Dairy LLC 41 FTE
NAT-TCR Timberline Mechanical Systems 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Efficiency Heating and Cooling LLC 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6943 Sixes Road 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Vamec - Mechanicsville 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Ulm High School 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dominion Terminal Associates, LLP 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE King Industries Inc. 92 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, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.