Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing · Minnesota

Albany Feed

Buffalo, MN · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Albany Feed runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Albany Feed: 5.9 TCR = 152% of Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Albany Feed safety composite

Albany Feed scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.96 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

Albany Feed: 3.9 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2023

Albany Feed's TCR rose 4.0 from 3.9 in 2022 to 7.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311119 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 152% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #21/28
  • PHOTO PerforMix - Fruitland
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PerforMix - Fruitland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Albany Feed in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Albany Feed averages 5.9 TCR (152% of the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Albany Feed TCR series: 2022=3.9 · 2023=7.9 · BLS 3.9

Where Albany Feed falls in its industry

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 28 Animal feeds, prepared (except employers in Minnesota.

Albany Feed (22 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Albany Feed
Albany Feed (22 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Albany Feed has fewer employees than the Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and c median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.9 4.0 2 0 0
2022 3.9 3.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311119 · MN · Buffalo

756 Animal feeds, prepared (except dog and cat), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 74 employers in Buffalo, 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 PerforMix - Fruitland 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trillium Farms Croton Mill 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maysville Feedmill 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hubbard Feeds 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunrise Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerald Spring Dairy, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Greenstreak Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dassel 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1577 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1577 320 FTE
NAT-TCR Joanne's House 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PACE - Winkler 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0521 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Emogene Dolin Jnes Hospice House 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Liberty Electric, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eurasia Feather Company 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Escofab, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Mist, Inc. 22 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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