Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing · Minnesota

Arden Hills Pellet Facility

Saint Paul, MN · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Arden Hills Pellet Facility runs at 243% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Arden Hills Pellet Facility: 8.0 TCR = 243% of Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Arden Hills Pellet Facility safety composite

Arden Hills Pellet Facility scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

Arden Hills Pellet Facility held a steady TCR band

Arden Hills Pellet Facility's TCR held near 0.0 from 9.6 in 2019 to 9.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=9.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Saint Paul, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 243% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Cul-Mac Industries LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cul-Mac Industries LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Arden Hills Pellet Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Arden Hills Pellet Facility averages 8.0 TCR (243% of the Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Arden Hills Pellet Facility TCR series: 2019=9.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=9.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Arden Hills Pellet Facility falls in its industry

485 Activated carbon or charcoal m establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Activated carbon or charcoal m employers in Minnesota.

Arden Hills Pellet Facility (20 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Arden Hills Pellet Facility
Arden Hills Pellet Facility (20 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Arden Hills Pellet Facility has fewer employees than the Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 9.6 9.6 2 0 0
2020 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2019 9.6 4.8 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · MN · Saint Paul

485 Activated carbon or charcoal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 291 employers in Saint Paul, 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 Cul-Mac Industries LLC 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waynesville Bulk Plant 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rousselot - Dubuque 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florida CirTech 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE C74 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNSGA-SEL-SELECT GENETICS ADMIN' 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bees Minnesota 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR HE-Midway Corporate Campus 2,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota Department of Public Safety 2,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota Department of Human Services, Central Office, Andersen, DC1 & Golden Rule 1,486 FTE
CITY-NEAR FV St Josephs Hospital 1,426 FTE
NAT-TCR Gadsden Regional Medical Cente 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Romulus* 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6795-86300B0199 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Parks and Recreation - Village of Northbrook, IL 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Foundation Building Materials 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Des Moines TC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northlake 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Inn & Suites 20 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.