Fertilizer application for crops · Minnesota

Central Counties Cooperative

Atwater, MN · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Counties Cooperative runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fertilizer application for crops workplace, earning a grade D.

Central Counties Cooperative: 6.2 TCR = 138% of Fertilizer application for crops BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Counties Cooperative safety composite

Central Counties Cooperative scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Central Counties Cooperative held a steady TCR band

Central Counties Cooperative's TCR held near 0.1 from 6.2 in 2018 to 6.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.2 · 2019=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Renteria Vineyard Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Renteria Vineyard Management (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Counties Cooperative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Counties Cooperative averages 6.2 TCR (138% 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

Central Counties Cooperative TCR series: 2018=6.2 · 2019=6.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Central Counties Cooperative falls in its industry

221 Fertilizer application for cro establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #5 safest of 9 Fertilizer application for cro employers in Minnesota.

Central Counties Cooperative (24 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Central Counties Cooperative
Central Counties Cooperative (24 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Central Counties Cooperative 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
2019 6.2 3.1 2 0 0
2018 6.2 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115112 · MN · Atwater

221 Fertilizer application for crops 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 Renteria Vineyard Management 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morada Farming Co, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wiles Bros. Fertilizer, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GAR BENNETT LLC 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Cottonwood Dairy 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE WPI-Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Production Services - Jackson 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Repairs and Maintenance 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACGC Elementary 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atwater Feed Mill 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Flying Food Group -SFO 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Roads Moving & Storage 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 7641-Enphg-Holy Family University 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dch4 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bow Alger Logging, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solo Cup Company Tacoma 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progressive Power Technologies 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coarc-Evergreen 24 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.