Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables · Minnesota

Cresco Food Technologies

Name: Cresco Food Technologies Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Woodbury, MN · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 13.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Cresco Food Technologies runs at 408% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade F.

Cresco Food Technologies: 13.4 TCR = 408% of Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cresco Food Technologies safety composite

Cresco Food Technologies 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).

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 13.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers
DART rate: F 13 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2020→2021

Cresco Food Technologies injury rate improved

Cresco Food Technologies's TCR fell 0.9 from 13.9 in 2020 to 13.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=13.9 · 2021=13.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Woodbury, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 408% of ind

DART 13.0 DART
RANK #4/5
PHOTO Northland Drying LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northland Drying LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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North Star Pro

13.8
This site

13.4
Northland Dryi

13.4
Idaho Pacific

13.3
Frontier Soups

12.7

What this shows Cresco Food Technologies averages 13.4 TCR (408% of the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

Cresco Food Technologies TCR series: 2020=13.9 · 2021=13 · BLS 3.3

Where Cresco Food Technologies falls in its industry

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Freeze-dried, food processing, employers in Minnesota.

Cresco Food Technologies (61 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Cresco Food Technologies has fewer employees than the Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits an median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2021	13.0	13.0	7	0	0
2020	13.9	12.2	8	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · MN · Woodbury

123 Freeze-dried, food processing, fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 151 employers in Woodbury, 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	Northland Drying LLC	ARLINGTON, MN	13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Idaho Pacific - Center	CENTER, CO	13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	North Star Processing, LLC	LITCHFIELD, MN	13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Frontier Soups	GURNEE, IL	12.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Gittleman Construction and Maintenance	MINNEAPOLIS	61 FTE
STATE-SIZE	R and G Construction Co.	MARSHALL	61 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BLK ELECTRIC	N MANKATO	61 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Albertville Truss Division	ALBERTVILLE	61 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MasTec Utility Services, LLC	Woodbury	4,307 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Utility Services Group	Woodbury	3,254 FTE
CITY-NEAR	HealthEast -Woodwinds Hospital	Woodbury	1,065 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Woodwinds Hospital	Woodbury	903 FTE
NAT-TCR	Permobil/Roho	Belleville, IL	13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jedburg Sc (Summerville)	Summerville, SC	13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	St. Petersburg Fl	St. Petersburg, FL	13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	70 - Home Care Oshkosh	Oshkosh, WI	13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Plunkett Distributing Co., Inc.	Fort Smith, AR	61 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Turkey Creek Snacks	Thomaston, GA	61 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tampa Bay Brew Bus Inc.	Tampa, FL	61 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Warm Springs Plateau Travel Plaza	Madras, OR	61 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: 2021, 2020. 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.