Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing · North Dakota

Dot's Velva

Velva, ND · ~85 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dot's Velva runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dot's Velva: 6.2 TCR = 151% of Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dot's Velva safety composite

Dot's Velva scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.2

2019→2021

Dot's Velva injury rate improved

Dot's Velva's TCR fell 4.2 from 9.3 in 2019 to 5.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.3 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Velva, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 151% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK P19
  • PHOTO Aaron Thomas Company…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aaron Thomas Company Mendenhall (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dot's Velva in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dot's Velva averages 6.2 TCR (151% of the Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dot's Velva TCR series: 2019=9.3 · 2020=4.2 · 2021=5.1 · BLS 4.1

Where Dot's Velva falls in its industry

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufac establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dot's Velva (85 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Dot's Velva
Dot's Velva (85 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Dot's Velva has fewer employees than the Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2021 5.1 3.4 3 0 0
2020 4.2 2.8 3 0 0
2019 9.3 9.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · ND · Velva

253 Pretzels (except soft) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Velva, ND · 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 Aaron Thomas Company Mendenhall 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Praters Foods (Lubbock) 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unique Pretzel Bakery, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 3 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Western Products Fgo 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3126 FAMILY FARE SOUTH BISMARCK 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cavalier County Memorial Hospital 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE Petroleum Experience, Inc. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Velva Oilseeds 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Velva C-Store 21 FTE
NAT-TCR NOV Fiber Glass Systems 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nu-Pak South 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR VNACHC Guilford 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR IAH-SAUSA 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brownsburg Meadows Assisted Living 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edgewater Woods 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bowie Texas 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meadow View Health and Rehabilitation 85 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.