Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers · Minnesota

Bix Produce Company

St. Paul, MN · ~380 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bix Produce Company runs at 399% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Bix Produce Company: 8.8 TCR = 399% of Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bix Produce Company safety composite

Bix Produce Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Bix Produce Company: 8.6 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2018

Bix Produce Company's TCR rose 0.4 from 8.6 in 2017 to 9.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · St. Paul, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 399% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO PH Cider LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~380 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PH Cider LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bix Produce Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bix Produce Company averages 8.8 TCR (399% of the Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Bix Produce Company TCR series: 2017=8.6 · 2018=9 · BLS 2.2

Where Bix Produce Company falls in its industry

369 Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Mercha establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Mercha employers in Minnesota.

Bix Produce Company (380 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bix Produce Company
Bix Produce Company (380 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Bix Produce Company has more employees than the Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Merchant Wholesa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2018 9.0 5.7 33 5 0
2017 8.6 7.8 33 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · MN · St. Paul

369 Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 370 employers in St. Paul, 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 PH Cider LLC 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watsonville Coast Produce 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mr Greens Produce - Plant City 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stern Produce Co., Inc. 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE TEAM Industries Bagley 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE Halcon Furniture 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2087 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1633 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR YCID 5,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific CRM 5,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Hospital 3,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR IT Campus 2,409 FTE
NAT-TCR Liberty Residential - 1364 Midline Rd. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Leesville Auto 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland - BU 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gainesville (Gahal) 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fort Hood 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supported Employment Pasadena 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pasadena Work center 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE L.L.Frank Work Center 380 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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