Chicken egg production · Minnesota

Forsman Farms

Howard Lake, MN · ~193 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Forsman Farms runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Chicken egg production workplace, earning a grade D.

Forsman Farms: 6.8 TCR = 152% of Chicken egg production BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forsman Farms safety composite

Forsman Farms scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 47% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2017→2024

Forsman Farms injury rate improved

Forsman Farms's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.9 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 17.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.9 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=9.7 · 2020=17.7 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112310 · Howard Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.8 · 152% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #6/10
  • PHOTO Creekwood
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~193 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Creekwood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forsman Farms in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forsman Farms averages 6.8 TCR (152% of the Chicken egg production BLS benchmark).

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

Forsman Farms TCR series: 2017=3.9 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=9.7 · 2020=17.7 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=3 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Forsman Farms falls in its industry

351 Chicken egg production establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

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 10 Chicken egg production employers in Minnesota.

Forsman Farms (193 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Forsman Farms
Forsman Farms (193 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Forsman Farms has more employees than the Chicken egg production median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 3.3 2.4 10 1 0
2023 3.0 1.5 10 0 0
2022 5.7 2.5 16 0 1
2021 2.7 2.3 7 0 0
2020 17.7 9.7 9 2 0
2019 9.7 7.1 11 0 0
2018 8.7 8.7 8 0 0
2017 3.9 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112310 · MN · Howard Lake

351 Chicken egg production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 13 employers in Howard Lake, 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 Creekwood 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spring Meadow Farms 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mascotte 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Pullet Farm / QC / Lab 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kurita America - Brooklyn Park 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tetra Pak Processing Equipment Inc - Winsted 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin City Fan Companies: Plymouth 193 FTE
STATE-SIZE Climate By Design International 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dura Supreme 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Lake Branch 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society - Howard Lake 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR HLWW High School 58 FTE
NAT-TCR ARCA Neuro Rehabilitation - Mesquite Wood NW 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - DHO7 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fontanelle 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jc Mattress and Furniture Showrooms 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 1667 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wurth Electronics Midcom Inc. 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glory Global Solutions Inc - Watertown Operations 193 FTE
NAT-SIZE SH NorthPoint 193 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. 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.