Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Minnesota

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations

Brainerd, MN · ~91 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations: 5.8 TCR = 148% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations safety composite

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations: 3.8 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2020

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations's TCR rose 4.3 from 3.8 in 2017 to 8.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 148% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Sensenig's Feed Mill
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sensenig's Feed Mill (0.0 TCR gap)

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Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations averages 5.8 TCR (148% 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

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2018=6.3 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=8.1 · BLS 3.9

Where Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #7 safest of 12 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Minnesota.

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations (91 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations
Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations (91 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Barrett Ag Service, Inc. DBA: Barrett Petfood Innovations 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
2020 8.1 7.3 10 0 0
2019 4.9 2.5 4 0 0
2018 6.3 2.5 4 1 0
2017 3.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MN · Brainerd

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Brainerd, 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 Sensenig's Feed Mill 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manufacturing 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fairview Mills Hiawatha Plant 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LinkOne Potato Solutions, LLC Burley 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bushel Boy Farms, LLP 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Interstate Improvement, Inc. 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE RJ Mechanical Inc 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harty Mechanical 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Josephs Medical Center 1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crow Wing County 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madden's on Gull Lake 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Lakes Colloege - Brainerd and Staples Campuses 258 FTE
NAT-TCR meijer inc 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clayton Windows of Texas 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Region 5- Pendleton 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercy Health St Vincent Hospital 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE CCL Buffalo 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pleasant Ridge Care Center 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wabash Valley Manufacturing 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metal Design Systems, inc. 91 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.