Food processing plant construction · Minnesota

Dakota Growers

New Hope, MN · ~153 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dakota Growers runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food processing plant construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Dakota Growers: 6.3 TCR = 217% of Food processing plant construction BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Growers safety composite

Dakota Growers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

Dakota Growers: 4.9 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2023

Dakota Growers's TCR rose 2.8 from 4.9 in 2022 to 7.7 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236210 · New Hope, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 217% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #18/20
  • PHOTO California Dynamics …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~153 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California Dynamics Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakota Growers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Growers averages 6.3 TCR (217% of the Food processing plant construction BLS benchmark).

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

Dakota Growers TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=7.7 · BLS 2.9

Where Dakota Growers falls in its industry

924 Food processing plant construc establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 20 Food processing plant construc employers in Minnesota.

Dakota Growers (153 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 Dakota Growers
Dakota Growers (153 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 1.6

Dakota Growers has more employees than the Food processing plant construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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 7.7 5.9 13 0 0
2022 4.9 3.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236210 · MN · New Hope

924 Food processing plant construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 95 employers in New Hope, 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 California Dynamics Corp 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Griffin Construction LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yoe Industrial Services 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial Interiors Manufacturing, Inc. 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE McC 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Modern Manufacturing and Engineering, Inc. 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stratasys (Edenvale) 153 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plasman Precision Parts LLC 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Therese of New Hope 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horwitz, Inc 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hope - Main Store 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Education Center 237 FTE
NAT-TCR Ypsilanti MI 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cape May Brewing Company 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercury-Excelum, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Corle Building Systems 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prime Now LLC - UWI1 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Control Sensors, LLC 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stens 153 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teichert Pipelines North 153 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.