Family restaurants, limited-service · Minnesota

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley

Apple Valley, MN · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley runs at 40% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Family restaurants, limited-service workplace, earning a grade A.

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley: 1.2 TCR = 40% of Family restaurants, limited-service BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley safety composite

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley: 0.0 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley's TCR rose 6.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 6.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Apple Valley, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.2 · 40% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/98
  • PHOTO Denny's Store #138
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denny's Store #138 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Famous Dave's - Apple Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Famous Dave's - Apple Valley averages 1.2 TCR (40% of the Family restaurants, limited-service BLS benchmark).

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

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.0

Where Famous Dave's - Apple Valley falls in its industry

1,014 Family restaurants, limited-se establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 98 Family restaurants, limited-se employers in Minnesota.

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley (26 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Famous Dave's - Apple Valley
Famous Dave's - Apple Valley (26 employees, TCR 1.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Famous Dave's - Apple Valley has fewer employees than the Family restaurants, limited-service median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 6.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · MN · Apple Valley

1,014 Family restaurants, limited-service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 91 employers in Apple Valley, 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 Denny's Store #138 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PWP Wyoming, LLC 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1660 Richmond victory LLC Mc donalds 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PWP Colorado LLC 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Becker 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Silverstreak Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Huiras MN 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Egg 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Apple Valley 880 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uponor - Apple Valley 682 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2390 - Apple Valley South 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2642 416 FTE
NAT-TCR Electronic Evolution Technologies, Inc. 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 01054-01-01-DONALD 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Whirlpool Corporation - Findlay Operations 1.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Foertsch Contracting LLC 1.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Triversity Craft Force, LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Everlan Clemson, LLC 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE J Hubler Landscaping, Inc 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sayre Personal Care Residence 26 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.