Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing · Minnesota

Cargill Owatonna

Owatonna, MN · ~47 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cargill Owatonna runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Cargill Owatonna: 1.7 TCR = 44% of Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS 3.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cargill Owatonna safety composite

Cargill Owatonna scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 90% 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% 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

−5.2

2022→2024

Cargill Owatonna injury rate improved

Cargill Owatonna's TCR fell 5.2 from 5.2 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=5.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311111 · Owatonna, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.7 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/12
  • PHOTO Nestle Purina Pet Care
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nestle Purina Pet Care (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cargill Owatonna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cargill Owatonna averages 1.7 TCR (44% of the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cargill Owatonna TCR series: 2022=5.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.9

Where Cargill Owatonna falls in its industry

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Animal feed mills, dog and cat employers in Minnesota.

Cargill Owatonna (47 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Cargill Owatonna
Cargill Owatonna (47 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 103 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Cargill Owatonna has fewer employees than the Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.2 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311111 · MN · Owatonna

302 Animal feed mills, dog and cat, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, 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 Nestle Purina Pet Care 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Symrise - Mondovi 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR KKM 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Champion Pet Foods 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Staples 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campbell 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willmar Live Haul 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR The Road Home Headquarters 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Millwood, Inc. CCPC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR ZF Active Safety US Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Westlake Pipe & Fittings 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE CSS Farms, LLC Bliss, NY 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solenis LLC Pasadena 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hudson Construction Inc. 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dolomite Main Office 47 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. 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.