Wet milling corn and other vegetables · Minnesota

Chemstar Products Company

Carlton, MN · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chemstar Products Company runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Wet milling corn and other vegetables workplace, earning a grade F.

Chemstar Products Company: 8.8 TCR = 268% of Wet milling corn and other vegetables BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chemstar Products Company safety composite

Chemstar Products Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−3.5

2019→2022

Chemstar Products Company injury rate improved

Chemstar Products Company's TCR fell 3.5 from 10.6 in 2019 to 7.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 10.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=10.6 · 2022=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311221 · Carlton, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 268% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO PureField Ingredient…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PureField Ingredients, Food Ingredients (0.1 TCR gap)

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Chemstar Products Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chemstar Products Company averages 8.8 TCR (268% of the Wet milling corn and other vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Chemstar Products Company TCR series: 2019=10.6 · 2022=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Chemstar Products Company falls in its industry

53 Wet milling corn and other veg establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Chemstar Products Company (23 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Chemstar Products Company
Chemstar Products Company (23 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 205 employees and a TCR of 1.7

Chemstar Products Company has fewer employees than the Wet milling corn and other vegetables median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2022 7.1 3.6 1 1 0
2019 10.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311221 · MN · Carlton

53 Wet milling corn and other vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 14 employers in Carlton, 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 PureField Ingredients, Food Ingredients 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manildra Milling Corporation 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van Buren Plant 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dakota Blenders 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brooten 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Alpha Foods, LLP 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNHT-SEL-HIGHWAY 12' 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fergus Falls CSC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inter-Faith Care Center 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Interfaith Care Center 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carlton Fire and Ambulance 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Terrace Elementary 52 FTE
NAT-TCR 038437-Tem-Apache Sta 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 166066-Pana Po 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 163006-Geneseo Po 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 565220-Mauston Po 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sysmex America, Inc. - Mundelein 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clarksville Distribution 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2453-00060368-60368M 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vermeer - Cypress (Houston) 23 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: 2022, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.