Dry milk products and mixture manufacturing · Minnesota

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP

Fosston, MN · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP runs at 141% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Dry milk products and mixture manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP: 4.7 TCR = 141% of Dry milk products and mixture manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP safety composite

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP: 0.0 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2.27× in 2024

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP's TCR rose 10.6 from 0.0 in 2019 to 10.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Fosston, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 141% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #11/18
  • PHOTO Fresno Processing Pl…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fresno Processing Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP averages 4.7 TCR (141% of the Dry milk products and mixture manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=4.4 · 2022=3.6 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP falls in its industry

185 Dry milk products and mixture establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 18 Dry milk products and mixture employers in Minnesota.

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP (24 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP
Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP (24 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Fosston - J. RETTENMAIER USA LP has fewer employees than the Dry milk products and mixture manufactur median and a higher 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 Fatalities
2024 10.6 10.6 2 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2020 4.4 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · MN · Fosston

185 Dry milk products and mixture manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 17 employers in Fosston, 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 Fresno Processing Plant 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR C.F BURGER CREAMERY CO. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Land O Lakes - Pine Island, MN 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glanbia Gooding Whey Plant 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Cottonwood Dairy 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE WPI-Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Production Services - Jackson 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Repairs and Maintenance 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fosston Hospital 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hugo's #13 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consolidated Equipment Group 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magelssen Elementary School 88 FTE
NAT-TCR Kraemer Farms LLC 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-Valley Clinic 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Morrow County 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student- New Britain, CT 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sms 1658 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stamping Group 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial Painting Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Pittsburgh Associates Fm 24 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, 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.