Flour Milling · Minnesota

Ardent Mills Hastings

Hastings, MN · ~118 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardent Mills Hastings runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Flour Milling workplace, earning a grade D.

Ardent Mills Hastings: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Flour Milling BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Hastings safety composite

Ardent Mills Hastings scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Ardent Mills Hastings held a steady TCR band

Ardent Mills Hastings's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.9 in 2020 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.9 · 2021=7.0 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Hastings, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO Grain Craft Wichita
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grain Craft Wichita (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Hastings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Hastings averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Flour Milling BLS benchmark).

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

Ardent Mills Hastings TCR series: 2020=2.9 · 2021=7 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Hastings falls in its industry

209 Flour Milling establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Flour Milling employers in Minnesota.

Ardent Mills Hastings (118 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ardent Mills Hastings
Ardent Mills Hastings (118 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ardent Mills Hastings has more employees than the Flour Milling median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.7 1.4 4 0 0
2023 7.6 6.9 11 0 0
2021 7.0 3.9 9 0 0
2020 2.9 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · MN · Hastings

209 Flour Milling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 72 employers in Hastings, 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 Grain Craft Wichita 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Panhandle Milling Hereford 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay State Milling Winona Plant 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bartlett Milling Company, L.P. - Wilsons Mills 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rich Products 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northland Dr. 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDI-TC 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1603 CUB FOODS-DULUTH (SV 030154) 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dakota County 2,091 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regina Hospital (United Hastings Regina) 553 FTE
CITY-NEAR 610 AFTON ALPS 449 FTE
CITY-NEAR Regina Hospital 389 FTE
NAT-TCR Sugar Creek Alz 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Colvico, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nashville Record Pressing 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 867 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CCK Automations 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waste Industries LLC 1 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington North 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Athens 118 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, 2021, 2020. 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.