Grocery stores · Minnesota

Festival Foods Lexington

Lexington, MN · ~60 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Festival Foods Lexington runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Festival Foods Lexington: 5.2 TCR = 154% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Festival Foods Lexington safety composite

Festival Foods Lexington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Festival Foods Lexington: 2.5 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2024

Festival Foods Lexington's TCR rose 5.6 from 2.5 in 2020 to 8.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Lexington, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 154% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #152/327
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 219
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 219 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Festival Foods Lexington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Festival Foods Lexington averages 5.2 TCR (154% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Festival Foods Lexington TCR series: 2020=2.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Festival Foods Lexington falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #152 safest of 327 Grocery stores employers in Minnesota.

Festival Foods Lexington (60 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Festival Foods Lexington
Festival Foods Lexington (60 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Festival Foods Lexington has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 8.1 8.1 3 0 0
2023 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2022 10.4 0.0 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · Lexington

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 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 The Fresh Market 219 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lowes Foods #260 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jons# 11 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Grocers 109 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Living Greens Farm 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Sweden Dairy 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Customer Service Support 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Cities Specialties 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-05918 16 FTE
NAT-TCR HLLD, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ripon Medical Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR dba Matcon Manufacturing 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RBC - Aircraft Products, Inc 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Safe Generation Logistics and Transportation LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Hotel & Restaurant Supply Corp. 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridgemill Senior Center LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Holland Brewing Production Campus 60 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. 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.