Flour Milling · Minnesota

Ardent Mills Mankato

Mankato, MN · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ardent Mills Mankato runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flour Milling workplace, earning a grade C.

Ardent Mills Mankato: 2.8 TCR = 85% of Flour Milling BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ardent Mills Mankato safety composite

Ardent Mills Mankato scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.3

2020→2024

Ardent Mills Mankato injury rate improved

Ardent Mills Mankato's TCR fell 2.3 from 2.3 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.3 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=9.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311211 · Mankato, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 85% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO GMI KC Mill
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GMI KC Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ardent Mills Mankato in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ardent Mills Mankato averages 2.8 TCR (85% 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 Mankato TCR series: 2020=2.3 · 2021=0 · 2023=9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Ardent Mills Mankato falls in its industry

209 Flour Milling establishments

Safer than 58% 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 #6 safest of 10 Flour Milling employers in Minnesota.

Ardent Mills Mankato (40 employees, TCR 2.8) 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 Mankato
Ardent Mills Mankato (40 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ardent Mills Mankato has fewer employees than the Flour Milling median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 9.0 6.7 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311211 · MN · Mankato

209 Flour Milling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 214 employers in Mankato, 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 GMI KC Mill 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Mills Great Falls 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ardent Mills Newton 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bartlett Milling Company, L.P. - Statesville 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML TW Shop - SE 0010 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sleepy Eye Feedmill 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forsman Farms HL 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perham Breeders 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota State University, Mankato 2,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Mankato 2,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR MRCI - Premier Drive 1,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mankato Area Public Schools 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Marc Glassman Inc 59AT 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hubbell Homes 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Albuquerque Nm - 339 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Reed Manufacturing Company 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hussmann Services Corporation - Wixom 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascade Hollow Distilling Company 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thompson, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Victus Sports, LLC 40 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.