Animal fats rendering · Minnesota

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls

Redwood Falls, MN · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Animal fats rendering workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls: 8.5 TCR = 259% of Animal fats rendering BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls safety composite

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−1.0

2022→2024

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls injury rate improved

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls's TCR fell 1.0 from 8.3 in 2022 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.3 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=7.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311613 · Redwood Falls, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 259% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Baker Commodities
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Baker Commodities (0.1 TCR gap)

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Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls averages 8.5 TCR (259% of the Animal fats rendering BLS benchmark).

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

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls TCR series: 2022=8.3 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls falls in its industry

151 Animal fats rendering establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

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 8 Animal fats rendering employers in Minnesota.

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls (72 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 050100150 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls
Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls (72 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Central Bi-Products - Redwood Falls has more employees than the Animal fats rendering median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 7.3 7.3 6 0 0
2023 9.9 8.7 6 2 0
2022 8.3 7.1 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311613 · MN · Redwood Falls

151 Animal fats rendering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 39 employers in Redwood Falls, 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 Baker Commodities 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR RVI-Scranton 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Wichita 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darling Ingredients Rose Hill Division 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Jackson JAC1 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACI Asphalt and Concrete, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Production Services Inc 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Soybean Processors 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Redwood Hospital 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carris Health-Redwood Hospital 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR Clayton Homes 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Independent School District #2897 215 FTE
NAT-TCR Sonesta Select Boca Raton 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt House Jersey City 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 065 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #284 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kombi Ltd. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Instrumentation & Control Systems Engineering, Inc 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ace Transfer & Storage 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE W.L. Roenigk, Inc. - Natrona Heights 72 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.