Family restaurants, limited-service · Minnesota

Famous Dave's - Minnetonka

Minnetonka, MN · ~51 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Famous Dave's - Minnetonka runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Family restaurants, limited-service workplace, earning a grade B.

Famous Dave's - Minnetonka: 2.1 TCR = 72% of Family restaurants, limited-service BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Famous Dave's - Minnetonka safety composite

Famous Dave's - Minnetonka scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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 - Minnetonka: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.93× in 2024

Famous Dave's - Minnetonka's TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2018 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 72% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #21/98
  • PHOTO Legacy Wendy's-227
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Legacy Wendy's-227 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Famous Dave's - Minnetonka in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Famous Dave's - Minnetonka averages 2.1 TCR (72% 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 - Minnetonka TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.0

Where Famous Dave's - Minnetonka falls in its industry

1,014 Family restaurants, limited-se establishments

Safer than 84% 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 #21 safest of 98 Family restaurants, limited-se employers in Minnesota.

Famous Dave's - Minnetonka (51 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 - Minnetonka
Famous Dave's - Minnetonka (51 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Famous Dave's - Minnetonka has more 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 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.6 3.3 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · MN · Minnetonka

1,014 Family restaurants, limited-service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 179 employers in Minnetonka, 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 Legacy Wendy's-227 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR dreamBIG Hospitality, LLC dba Chick-fil-A 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamburg #17 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davannis Inc. Plymouth 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Union Dairy LLP 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE ON 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wes Hanson Builders 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis Office 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2573-MN008 1,873 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Marsh 1,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2573-MN006 1,386 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN006 MINNETONKA-9800 HEALTH CARE LN 1,367 FTE
NAT-TCR Westlake Global Compounds , Madison 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakland Nursery - Delaware 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oaks at Hampton 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Castelli Magnet LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hammond,LA - 238 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Satco Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson City Bedding Company 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pheonix - University Dr 51 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.