Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Minnesota

AVEKA Manufacturing

Woodbury, MN · ~77 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AVEKA Manufacturing runs at 225% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

AVEKA Manufacturing: 8.8 TCR = 225% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AVEKA Manufacturing safety composite

AVEKA Manufacturing 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.17 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%).

Rising injury rate

AVEKA Manufacturing: 6.0 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.16× in 2021

AVEKA Manufacturing's TCR rose 5.7 from 6.0 in 2020 to 11.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Woodbury, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 225% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #9/12
  • PHOTO Ethos Pet Nutrition,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. (0.1 TCR gap)

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AVEKA Manufacturing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AVEKA Manufacturing averages 8.8 TCR (225% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AVEKA Manufacturing TCR series: 2020=6 · 2021=11.6 · BLS 3.9

Where AVEKA Manufacturing falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 9% 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 12 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Minnesota.

AVEKA Manufacturing (77 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate AVEKA Manufacturing
AVEKA Manufacturing (77 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

AVEKA Manufacturing has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact 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
2021 11.6 10.2 8 0 0
2020 6.0 3.0 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MN · Woodbury

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 151 employers in Woodbury, 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 Ethos Pet Nutrition, LLC. 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Springdale 275 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gold Star Feed and Grain, LLC Springville NY 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canidae LLC 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE St Cloud Service Center-LB 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Regional Maintenance Facility- Interceptor Services 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shaw-Lundquist Associates, Inc. Eagan office 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linco Fab, Inc 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR MasTec Utility Services, LLC 4,307 FTE
CITY-NEAR Utility Services Group 3,254 FTE
CITY-NEAR HealthEast -Woodwinds Hospital 1,065 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodwinds Hospital 903 FTE
NAT-TCR Republic Services of Davie 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Modern Forge Tennessee LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR FMBrown's Sons Inc-flour 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 879 Oakbrook Mall 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hawaiian Cement (Halawa Division) 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eddie Farms, Inc. 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Denver Lakewood 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE TMMK Dock Support 77 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. 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.