Granulated beet sugar manufacturing · North Dakota

American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro

Hillsboro, ND · ~412 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Granulated beet sugar manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro: 4.9 TCR = 116% of Granulated beet sugar manufacturing BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro safety composite

American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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 - Hillsboro: 3.9 → 5.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro's TCR rose 1.9 from 3.9 in 2023 to 5.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311313 · Hillsboro, ND ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.9 · 116% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Au Gres Piling Ground
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~412 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Au Gres Piling Ground (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro averages 4.9 TCR (116% 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 - Hillsboro TCR series: 2023=3.9 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 4.2

Where American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro falls in its industry

44 Granulated beet sugar manufact establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Granulated beet sugar manufact employers in North Dakota.

American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro (412 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 - Hillsboro
American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro (412 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6

American Crystal Sugar - Hillsboro 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 2.1 14 5 0
2023 3.9 2.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311313 · ND · Hillsboro

44 Granulated beet sugar manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 10 employers in Hillsboro, ND · 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 Au Gres Piling Ground 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Crystal Sugar Company Hillsboro Factory 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Crystal Sugar Company Hillsboro 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR COMPANY EAST GRAND FORKS 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE FG Plant - Grand Forks 408 FTE
STATE-SIZE Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing, Inc. Dickinson facility 405 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1636 404 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swanson Health Products_Fargo 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Hillsboro-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Transystems LLC - Hillsboro Project 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,HILLSBORO - Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,HILLSBORO - Medical Center Campus - Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 46 FTE
NAT-TCR Blair Image Elements - Main 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Petro - Poughkeepsie 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Village Healthcare 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Classic Recreation Systems 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seaboard Marine LTD 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caper - Temecula 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flsar - Sarasota Center 412 FTE
NAT-SIZE 052-PL001 412 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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