Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Minnesota

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc.

Atwater, MN · ~40 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc.: 6.5 TCR = 198% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. safety composite

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−2.6

2021→2024

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. injury rate improved

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.6 from 6.7 in 2021 to 4.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=6.7 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Atwater, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 198% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #19/22
  • PHOTO Poet Biorefining - I…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Poet Biorefining - Iowa Falls LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. averages 6.5 TCR (198% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. TCR series: 2021=6.7 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 22 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Minnesota.

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bushmills Ethanol, Inc.
Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. (40 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. has fewer employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 4.1 4.1 2 0 0
2023 10.9 5.4 4 0 0
2022 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2021 6.7 6.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · MN · Atwater

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Atwater, 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 Poet Biorefining - Iowa Falls LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KAAPA Partners Aurora, LLC 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Plains Bluffton LLC 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML TW Shop - SE 0010 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sleepy Eye Feedmill 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forsman Farms HL 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perham Breeders 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACGC Elementary 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Counties Cooperative 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atwater Feed Mill 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Mercy Hospital Clermont 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR US Foods Reno 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Medical Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Three D Metals, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ATLANTA 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bear Insulation, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heavener, OK - Hwy 128 E 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 104614 - MECT - VMR South Central LRT 40 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. 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.