Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Minnesota

Bernicks Twin Cities

Waite Park, MN · ~131 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bernicks Twin Cities runs at 370% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Bernicks Twin Cities: 14.4 TCR = 370% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bernicks Twin Cities safety composite

Bernicks Twin Cities scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Bernicks Twin Cities: 13.2 → 15.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2019

Bernicks Twin Cities's TCR rose 2.4 from 13.2 in 2018 to 15.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Waite Park, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 370% of ind

  • DART 15.6 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO North Freeze Dry
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North Freeze Dry (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bernicks Twin Cities in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bernicks Twin Cities averages 14.4 TCR (370% 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

Bernicks Twin Cities TCR series: 2018=13.2 · 2019=15.6 · BLS 3.9

Where Bernicks Twin Cities falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #12 safest of 12 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Minnesota.

Bernicks Twin Cities (131 employees, TCR 14.4) 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Bernicks Twin Cities
Bernicks Twin Cities (131 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Bernicks Twin Cities has more 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
2019 15.6 15.6 10 1 0
2018 13.2 13.2 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MN · Waite Park

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 82 employers in Waite Park, 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 North Freeze Dry 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients, Inc. 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dakota Dry Bean Devils Lake (Lakeview) 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dayton Natural Meats 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Enebak Construction Company 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parallel Technologies 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. J. Zavoral & Sons, Inc. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milk Specialties Global Eden Prairie 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR WACOSA 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bernicks Pepsi & Chas A Bernick of St Cloud 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buttweiler Environmental, Inc. 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buttweiler Environmental, Inc. Corporate Office 247 FTE
NAT-TCR 2225 Locust St 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dunbar Center 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Ddc4 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stericycle - Yuba City,CA 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE DC-Killingly 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joy Global Underground Mining LLC- Homer City 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE 631 - Bala Cynwyd 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE BCBSNC Madison Park Bldg 5650 131 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: 2019, 2018. 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.