Butter manufacturing · Minnesota

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant)

New Ulm, MN · ~199 workers · 2 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

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Butter manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant): 8.0 TCR = 241% of Butter manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) safety composite

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) held a steady TCR band

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant)'s TCR held near 0.1 from 7.9 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.9 · 2018=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311512 · New Ulm, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 241% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO Logan facility
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~199 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Logan facility (0.3 TCR gap)

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Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) averages 8.0 TCR (241% of the Butter manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) TCR series: 2017=7.9 · 2018=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) falls in its industry

32 Butter manufacturing establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) (199 employees, TCR 8.0) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 24 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant)
Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) (199 employees, TCR 8.0) among 23 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Associated Milk Producers Inc (Butter Plant) has more employees than the Butter manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2018 8.0 4.0 14 0 0
2017 7.9 5.6 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311512 · MN · New Ulm

32 Butter manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 79 employers in New Ulm, 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 Logan facility 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butterball Farms, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wapsie Valley Creamery, Inc. 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bituminous Roadways, Inc. 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE First District Association 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE JBS Swift Pork Company Pipestone 199 FTE
STATE-SIZE Surmodics 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc. 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm Medical Center 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martin Luther College 441 FTE
NAT-TCR Schult Richfield 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectrum America SCS 999 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago Division 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atmosphere Annealing LLC, Bassett St. Facility 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kauffman Engineering, Inc. LEB 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sister Schubert's; Luverne 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE Biodex Medical Systems, Inc. 199 FTE
NAT-SIZE FoodState Inc 199 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.