Processed meats manufacturing · Minnesota

Cooked-Albert Lea MN

Albert Lea, MN · ~246 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cooked-Albert Lea MN runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Processed meats manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Cooked-Albert Lea MN: 6.3 TCR = 190% of Processed meats manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cooked-Albert Lea MN safety composite

Cooked-Albert Lea MN scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2021→2024

Cooked-Albert Lea MN injury rate improved

Cooked-Albert Lea MN's TCR fell 5.9 from 10.0 in 2021 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.0 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311612 · Albert Lea, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Lebanon Meat Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~246 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lebanon Meat Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cooked-Albert Lea MN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cooked-Albert Lea MN averages 6.3 TCR (190% of the Processed meats manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cooked-Albert Lea MN TCR series: 2021=10 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Cooked-Albert Lea MN falls in its industry

613 Processed meats manufacturing establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 Processed meats manufacturing employers in Minnesota.

Cooked-Albert Lea MN (246 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cooked-Albert Lea MN
Cooked-Albert Lea MN (246 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 202 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Cooked-Albert Lea MN has more employees than the Processed meats manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 4.2 3.6 6 8 0
2023 4.6 3.1 7 8 0
2022 6.2 4.5 8 6 0
2021 10.0 9.1 9 12 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311612 · MN · Albert Lea

613 Processed meats manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 Lebanon Meat Plant 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooked - Timberville 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fra' Mani Handcrafted Foods 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thrushwood Farms 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CHRISTENSEN FARMS & FEEDLOTS, INC. 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshall Corn Plant 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sign-Zone, LLC (MN Headquarters) 246 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&M Radiator 246 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lou-Rich Front Street 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Lmmm Houston #55, Ltd 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 8027208 Air Fayre 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR EST Tool & Machine, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hytrol Conveyor Company - Fort Smith 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Yale Public School District 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE 126 - Ontario 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE PORTCO 246 FTE
NAT-SIZE 208 - Lincoln Park 246 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.