Farm supplies merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Cokato Agronomy

Buffalo, MN · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cokato Agronomy runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Farm supplies merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Cokato Agronomy: 3.4 TCR = 155% of Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cokato Agronomy safety composite

Cokato Agronomy scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Cokato Agronomy held a steady TCR band

Cokato Agronomy's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.5 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.5 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.4 · 155% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/72
  • PHOTO BFG Supply Co-Grand …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BFG Supply Co-Grand Rapids (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cokato Agronomy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cokato Agronomy averages 3.4 TCR (155% of the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Cokato Agronomy TCR series: 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Cokato Agronomy falls in its industry

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesa establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 72 Farm supplies merchant wholesa employers in Minnesota.

Cokato Agronomy (29 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cokato Agronomy
Cokato Agronomy (29 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Cokato Agronomy has fewer employees than the Farm supplies merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · MN · Buffalo

1,202 Farm supplies merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 74 employers in Buffalo, 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 BFG Supply Co-Grand Rapids 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watsonville CA 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 72882 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bath 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Plains Dairy LLP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE The tru Shrimp Company 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2530-Redwood Falls, MN-FND (Monsanto Co.) 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kasota Stone Fabricators 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1577 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1577 320 FTE
NAT-TCR AMF Electrical Contractors, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ideal Tape Company 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Watterson Excavating Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Angies Construction Services, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Weatherite Corp 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE 101414-Alb-Main Store 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE BSI, LLC Garage Door 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE CACHIC-AEG-CHICO 29 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: 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.