Salt (except table) manufacturing · Minnesota

Compass Minerals

Duluth, MN · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Compass Minerals runs at 316% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Salt (except table) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Compass Minerals: 10.4 TCR = 316% of Salt (except table) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Compass Minerals safety composite

Compass Minerals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Compass Minerals: 8.5 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2020

Compass Minerals's TCR rose 3.9 from 8.5 in 2019 to 12.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 316% of ind

  • DART 12.4 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Southwin Greensboro
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwin Greensboro (0.2 TCR gap)

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Compass Minerals in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Compass Minerals averages 10.4 TCR (316% of the Salt (except table) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Compass Minerals TCR series: 2019=8.5 · 2020=12.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Compass Minerals falls in its industry

485 Salt (except table) manufactur establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Salt (except table) manufactur employers in Minnesota.

Compass Minerals (20 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 Compass Minerals
Compass Minerals (20 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Compass Minerals has fewer employees than the Salt (except table) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 12.4 12.4 3 0 0
2019 8.5 8.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · MN · Duluth

485 Salt (except table) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 340 employers in Duluth, 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 Southwin Greensboro 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greendale Bulk Plant 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRC Industries Inc. - Warminster, PA 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR M. Argueso Kindt dba Paramelt 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE C74 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNSGA-SEL-SELECT GENETICS ADMIN' 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bees Minnesota 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Duluth 1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR 5519 IL Drivers 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbor - Morton Unit School District 709 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 60 Rancho Solano 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Springs 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Richmond Growout 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orscheln Farm and Home LLC 056 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 055370-Newman Po 20 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: 2020, 2019. 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.