Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers · North Dakota

Fargo Nd

Fargo, ND · ~185 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fargo Nd runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Fargo Nd: 5.2 TCR = 236% of Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fargo Nd safety composite

Fargo Nd scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

Fargo Nd: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2024

Fargo Nd's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 13.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Fargo, ND ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 236% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #5/8
  • PHOTO COFFEYVILLE KS
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 68 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: COFFEYVILLE KS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fargo Nd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fargo Nd averages 5.2 TCR (236% of the Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fargo Nd TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=13.1 · 2018=5.2 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=6.5 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Fargo Nd falls in its industry

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Prod establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 8 Other Grocery and Related Prod employers in North Dakota.

Fargo Nd (185 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Fargo Nd
Fargo Nd (185 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Fargo Nd has more employees than the Other Grocery and Related Products Merch median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 4.5 3.0 6 0 0
2023 2.7 2.0 4 0 0
2022 6.4 5.7 9 0 0
2021 2.8 2.1 4 0 0
2020 6.5 5.8 9 0 0
2019 5.5 4.1 8 0 0
2018 5.2 3.9 8 0 0
2017 13.1 11.8 20 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · ND · Fargo

1,278 Other Grocery and Related Products Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 415 employers in Fargo, 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 COFFEYVILLE KS 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 067 Greensboro 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PBV-Elkin 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carmela Foods Distributing, Inc. 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE SRT Communications, Inc. 186 FTE
STATE-SIZE MRY Station 187 FTE
STATE-SIZE Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Antelope Valley Station 183 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rainbow Energy Center 188 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - Fargo Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,547 FTE
NAT-TCR TreeHouse Foods, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Foremost Farms USA (Reedsburg, WI) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dore's Stores Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ems Springfield 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE JD Dubuque IA 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE H J Martin and Son 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Health Care Center at Richland Place 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Reno 185 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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