Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores · Minnesota

Cottage Grove - Main Store

Cottage Grove, MN · ~263 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cottage Grove - Main Store runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Cottage Grove - Main Store: 5.6 TCR = 166% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottage Grove - Main Store safety composite

Cottage Grove - Main Store scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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%).

Cottage Grove - Main Store held a steady TCR band

Cottage Grove - Main Store's TCR held near 0.3 from 5.5 in 2023 to 5.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.5 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Cottage Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 166% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #176/327
  • PHOTO Green Valley Market …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~263 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Valley Market Place #52 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cottage Grove - Main Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottage Grove - Main Store averages 5.6 TCR (166% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores BLS benchmark).

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

Cottage Grove - Main Store TCR series: 2023=5.5 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Cottage Grove - Main Store falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #176 safest of 327 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in Minnesota.

Cottage Grove - Main Store (263 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Cottage Grove - Main Store
Cottage Grove - Main Store (263 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Cottage Grove - Main Store has more employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Co 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
2024 5.8 3.2 9 0 0
2023 5.5 3.0 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · Cottage Grove

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery except Convenience Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 33 employers in Cottage Grove, 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 Green Valley Market Place #52 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Fresh Market 118 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Menlo Park 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 8021 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sportsman's Guide 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE District Office 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE ISD 728 Elk River School District District Office 263 FTE
STATE-SIZE ISD #595 263 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renewal by Andersen 1,281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove Site 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Up North Plastics 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Cottage Grove 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon Retail LLC - MAG3 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wabash Lafayette South 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Westside Welding, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Canopy at Boynton Ridge 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dr Praegers Sensible Foods Inc 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX173 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Food Stores 6447 263 FTE
NAT-SIZE Four Seasons Atlanta 263 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. 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.