Fertilizer application for crops · Minnesota

C & J Waste Handling, LLC

Lafayette, MN · ~14 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

C & J Waste Handling, LLC runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fertilizer application for crops workplace, earning a grade D.

C & J Waste Handling, LLC: 7.4 TCR = 164% of Fertilizer application for crops BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

C & J Waste Handling, LLC safety composite

C & J Waste Handling, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

C & J Waste Handling, LLC: 7.3 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

C & J Waste Handling, LLC's TCR rose 2.7 from 7.3 in 2019 to 10.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115112 · Lafayette, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.4 · 164% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Sun Pacific Farming …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Maricopa (0.0 TCR gap)

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C & J Waste Handling, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows C & J Waste Handling, LLC averages 7.4 TCR (164% of the Fertilizer application for crops BLS benchmark).

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

C & J Waste Handling, LLC TCR series: 2019=7.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=14.9 · 2024=10 · BLS 4.5

Where C & J Waste Handling, LLC falls in its industry

221 Fertilizer application for cro establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Fertilizer application for cro employers in Minnesota.

C & J Waste Handling, LLC (14 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate C & J Waste Handling, LLC
C & J Waste Handling, LLC (14 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8

C & J Waste Handling, LLC has fewer employees than the Fertilizer application for crops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 10.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 14.9 14.9 2 1 0
2022 5.6 0.0 1 0 0
2021 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115112 · MN · Lafayette

221 Fertilizer application for crops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Lafayette, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Maricopa 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Counties Cooperative 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAS Royal City 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Basin Farming 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin TD 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN Sanitation Building 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Insituform Technologies USA LLC - Anoka 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mankato MN (Whse) 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Farmers Cooperative 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Lafayette - Fire and Ambulance Department 38 FTE
NAT-TCR New England Ice Cream Corp - Enfield, CT 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Clarke Packing Bartlett 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bothell Health Care 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CC&F Retail, Inc (dba Coffee Cup #5) 7.4 TCR

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, 2020, 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.