Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing · Minnesota

Benson Ave Plant

Willmar, MN · ~249 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Benson Ave Plant runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing workplace, earning a grade C.

Benson Ave Plant: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benson Ave Plant safety composite

Benson Ave Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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)
C 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Benson Ave Plant: 0.9 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2021

Benson Ave Plant's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.9 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Willmar, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #5/16
  • PHOTO Hatchery
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~249 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hatchery (0.0 TCR gap)

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Benson Ave Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Benson Ave Plant averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing BLS benchmark).

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

Benson Ave Plant TCR series: 2017=0.9 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=2 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Benson Ave Plant falls in its industry

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 16 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, employers in Minnesota.

Benson Ave Plant (249 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Benson Ave Plant
Benson Ave Plant (249 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Benson Ave Plant has fewer employees than the Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, fr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.0 4.0 9 0 0
2020 3.4 1.9 7 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 4 0 0
2018 3.4 3.0 8 0 0
2017 0.9 0.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MN · Willmar

509 Poultry (e.g., canned, cooked, fresh, frozen) processing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 154 employers in Willmar, 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 Hatchery 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pilgrim's Pride Fresh Processing 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Further Processing 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay Springs Processing Facility 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE LTF Construction Company, LLC 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dan's Prize- Browerville, MN 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teleflex 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE CTM - Dodge Center 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Willmar Avenue Plant 1,205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Willmar Ave Plant 1,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carris Health Rice Hospital 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Rice Memorial Hospital 742 FTE
NAT-TCR EnvirOx, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Old Lyme Town Hall 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Excela Health Home Care & Hospice 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Rock Oil Field Services 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE RRS Vance 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skinner Masonry, LLP 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZSAL 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bland Farms, LLC. 249 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.