Granulated beet sugar manufacturing · Minnesota

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks

East Grand Forks, MN · ~406 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Granulated beet sugar manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks: 4.3 TCR = 103% of Granulated beet sugar manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks safety composite

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 59% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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)
C 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks: 5.3 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks's TCR rose 0.6 from 5.3 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311313 · East Grand Forks, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.3 · 103% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUG…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 88 inj
  • SIZE ~406 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY CROOKSTON (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks averages 4.3 TCR (103% of the Granulated beet sugar manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks TCR series: 2016=5.3 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.1 · 2022=2.6 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 4.2

Where American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks falls in its industry

44 Granulated beet sugar manufact establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Granulated beet sugar manufact employers in Minnesota.

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks (406 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks
American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks (406 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6

American Crystal Sugar Company East Grand Forks has more employees than the Granulated beet sugar manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 5.8 4.0 22 1 0
2022 2.6 1.6 8 2 0
2020 3.1 0.9 10 0 0
2019 2.5 1.1 9 0 0
2018 6.7 1.6 25 0 0
2016 5.3 1.7 14 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311313 · MN · East Grand Forks

44 Granulated beet sugar manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 18 employers in East Grand Forks, 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 AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY CROOKSTON 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Drayton Factory 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Crystal Sugar Company Moorhead 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Crystal Sugar Company Hillsboro 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE MN Department of Agriculture Headquarters 406 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veit & Company 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE MyPillow, Inc. 407 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9705 Data Park 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD #595 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR R. J. Zavoral & Sons, Inc. 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hugo's #5 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR MinnState - Northland Community and Technical College 97 FTE
NAT-TCR Mbs Fabrication Inc 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 3007 KEYSTONE AUTOMOTIVE Tampa 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brenham Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ray Black & Son, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Smail Company, Inc. 406 FTE
NAT-SIZE Riverside Ag Works LLC 406 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bodine Aluminum, Inc.- Jackson 406 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Diego County Regional Airport Authority 406 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.