Potato Farming · Minnesota

Brooten

Brooten, MN · ~23 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brooten runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato Farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Brooten: 7.1 TCR = 159% of Potato Farming BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brooten safety composite

Brooten scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−13.4

2019→2024

Brooten injury rate improved

Brooten's TCR fell 13.4 from 19.1 in 2019 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 19.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=19.1 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=10.8 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Brooten, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.1 · 159% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Wadena
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wadena (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brooten in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brooten averages 7.1 TCR (159% of the Potato Farming BLS benchmark).

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

Brooten TCR series: 2019=19.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=10.8 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Brooten falls in its industry

153 Potato Farming establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Potato Farming employers in Minnesota.

Brooten (23 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Brooten
Brooten (23 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Brooten has fewer employees than the Potato Farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 5.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 10.8 5.4 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 19.1 19.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · MN · Brooten

153 Potato Farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Brooten, 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 Wadena 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4Seasons Farms, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR L.J. OLSEN, INC. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenridge Farming Inc. 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Alpha Foods, LLP 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNHT-SEL-HIGHWAY 12' 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fergus Falls CSC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mankato Energy Center 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Foods Brooten 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Foods, Inc 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Brooten 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glacial Wood Products, LLC 24 FTE
NAT-TCR 0681 - Kent 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1050 - Vero Beach 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1275 - Lynchburg 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pt-Ascension Provide 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atwood Timber and Lumber 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franz Family Bakeries 6th Ave Routes 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Filmtec Fabrications, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE NSE - Camden 23 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, 2022, 2021, 2019. 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.