Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses · Minnesota

Branding Iron Holdings

Sauk Rapids, MN · ~140 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Branding Iron Holdings runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses workplace, earning a grade B.

Branding Iron Holdings: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Branding Iron Holdings safety composite

Branding Iron Holdings scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.8

2023→2024

Branding Iron Holdings injury rate improved

Branding Iron Holdings's TCR fell 0.8 from 2.8 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.8 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Sauk Rapids, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #6/19
  • PHOTO Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Branding Iron Holdings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Branding Iron Holdings averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses BLS benchmark).

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

Branding Iron Holdings TCR series: 2023=2.8 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Branding Iron Holdings falls in its industry

613 Boxed beef made from purchased establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

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 19 Boxed beef made from purchased employers in Minnesota.

Branding Iron Holdings (140 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Branding Iron Holdings
Branding Iron Holdings (140 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Branding Iron Holdings has fewer employees than the Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 2.0 2.0 2 0 0
2023 2.8 1.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MN · Sauk Rapids

613 Boxed beef made from purchased carcasses employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 50 employers in Sauk Rapids, 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 Plumrose USA, Inc. CB1 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR George's Prepared Foods 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dan's Prize Browerville 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kraft Heinz Columbia 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Country Power 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winona Heating & Ventilating 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cameron's Coffee and Distribution Company 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Villaume Industries, Inc. 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR J-Berd Mechanical Contractors INC 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR J-Berd Mechanical 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR 320141 - Various Mobile 306 FTE
NAT-TCR Sub-Zero Goodyear 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Comfort Suites Liberty (Youngstown North) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cerrowire, Crothersville 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Tool Equipment and Controls, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Daytona Beverages, LLC 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spectex, Inc 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakville 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE Iavarone Brothers of Wantagh LLC 140 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: 2024, 2023. 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.