Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing · Minnesota

Firmenich, Inc.

Name: Firmenich, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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New Ulm, MN · ~100 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Firmenich, Inc. runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Firmenich, Inc.: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Firmenich, Inc. safety composite

Firmenich, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

Firmenich, Inc.: 2.9 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2019

Firmenich, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.8 from 2.9 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · New Ulm, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #6/18
PHOTO Sleepy Eye
BOOK 3y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sleepy Eye (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.6
Sleepy Eye

2.6
Stabilization

2.6
Ingredients -

2.6
Foremost Farms

2.6

What this shows Firmenich, Inc. averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Firmenich, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.9 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Firmenich, Inc. falls in its industry

185 Milk, concentrated, condensed, establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 18 Milk, concentrated, condensed, employers in Minnesota.

Firmenich, Inc. (100 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Firmenich, Inc. has more employees than the Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, ev median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2019	3.8	1.9	3	1
2018	1.2	0.0	1	0
2017	2.9	1.0	2	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · MN · New Ulm

185 Milk, concentrated, condensed, dried, evaporated, and powdered, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 79 employers in New Ulm, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Sleepy Eye	SLEEPY EYE, MN	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stabilization and Functional Systems : Sycamore	SYCAMORE, IL	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ingredients - Drying - Goshen IN	GOSHEN, IN	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Foremost Farms - Plover	PLOVER, WI	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	WARNING LITES OF MN	MINNEAPOLIS	100 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Abhe & Svoboda, Inc.	JORDAN	100 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Public Works Department	ROCHESTER	100 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Rochester Plumbing & Heating	ROCHESTER	100 FTE
CITY-NEAR	J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc.	New Ulm	926 FTE
CITY-NEAR	New Ulm	New Ulm	722 FTE
CITY-NEAR	New Ulm Medical Center	New Ulm	640 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Martin Luther College	New Ulm	441 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sunbelt Steel Texas - Houston	Houston, TX	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	PolySciences Inc	Warrington Pa, PA	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Southroads	St. Louis, MO	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Faf Phl	Folcroft, PA	2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Rock Hill MO	St. Louis, MO	100 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Southeast Utilities of GA Ince	Augusta, GA	100 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Farstad Oil Inc.	Minot, ND	100 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Duro Bag - Alsip	Alsip, IL	100 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.