Grocery stores · Minnesota

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone

Name: Chris' Food Center - Sandstone Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Sandstone, MN · ~90 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.6
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone runs at 223% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone: 7.6 TCR = 223% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone safety composite

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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).

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers
DART rate: F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone: 5.4 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2019

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone's TCR rose 4.4 from 5.4 in 2018 to 9.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Sandstone, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 223% of ind

DART 7.8 DART
RANK #251/327
PHOTO 10569 Elmhurst
BOOK 2y book
INJ 8 inj
SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10569 Elmhurst (0.0 TCR gap)

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10569 Elmhurst

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What this shows Chris' Food Center - Sandstone averages 7.6 TCR (223% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone TCR series: 2018=5.4 · 2019=9.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Chris' Food Center - Sandstone falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #251 safest of 327 Grocery stores employers in Minnesota.

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone (90 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Chris' Food Center - Sandstone has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019	9.8	7.8	5	0	0
2018	5.4	0.0	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · Sandstone

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Sandstone, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	10569 Elmhurst	ELMHURST, IL	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	20500002-369 STORE 369 - CARSON	CARSON, CA	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ABS-0017-0016-04017 FAC-04017-LAS VEGAS-NV	LAS VEGAS, NV	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SWY-0027-0027-01522 FAC-01522-ARLINGTON-WA	ARLINGTON, WA	7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Bushel Boy - Owatonna	OWATONNA	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Radiant Change Construction, LLC.	ST PAUL	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Weis Builders - Minneapolis	RICHFIELD	90 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kelleher Construction, Inc	BURNSVILLE	90 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sandstone	Sandstone	139 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Essentia Health Sandstone	Sandstone	133 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sandstone Health Care Center	Sandstone	91 FTE
CITY-NEAR	City of Sandstone	Sandstone	34 FTE
NAT-TCR	SummerWinds Nursery - Tatum	Phoenix, AZ	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rite Hite Products - Horn Lake	Horn Lake, MS	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hunter Truck Sales & Service Inc. - Wheeling	Valley Grove, WV	7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	6400-Swy 0005 1286	Colorado Springs, CO	7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Children's Outpatient-Old Shell	Mobile, AL	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	The Villagr at Ocotillo	Chandler, AZ	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Evaqua Farms Plant	Filer, ID	90 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Walmart (WC USX WGC)	Gas City, IN	90 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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