General combination animal farming · Minnesota

Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus

Elk River, MN · ~110 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General combination animal farming workplace, earning a grade A.

Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus: 1.2 TCR = 27% of General combination animal farming BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus safety composite

Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus: 1.0 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.46× in 2023

Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus's TCR rose 0.8 from 1.0 in 2021 to 1.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112990 · Elk River, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 27% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK P85
  • PHOTO TXP
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TXP (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus averages 1.2 TCR (27% of the General combination animal farming BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus TCR series: 2021=1 · 2022=0.9 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus falls in its industry

34 General combination animal far establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus (110 employees, TCR 1.2) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 4.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 27 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 Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus
Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus (110 employees, TCR 1.2) among 26 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 50 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus has more employees than the General combination animal farming median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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
2023 1.8 1.8 2 0 0
2022 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 1.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112990 · MN · Elk River

34 General combination animal farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 102 employers in Elk River, 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 TXP 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Albany Campus 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Worldwide Headquarters Hudson 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taconic Biosciences, Inc. Worldwide Corporate Headquarters & Laboratory 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis SE Storage 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shaw-Lundquist Associates Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Energy Solar - MN 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heggies Pizza LLC 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3209 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherburne County Government Center - General 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3209 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherburne County Government Center 367 FTE
NAT-TCR Angelo Iafrate Construction Company 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Triad 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Casey BMW 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverview Plaza 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vollrath Company LLC, Dane 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brass Aluminum Forging Enterprises, LLC 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ocotillo Village Health Club & Spa 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hall Buick Gmc 110 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: 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.