Sauces,tomatobased,canning · Minnesota

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties

Red Wing, MN · ~80 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sauces,tomatobased,canning workplace, earning a grade D.

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties: 5.2 TCR = 157% of Sauces,tomatobased,canning BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties safety composite

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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)
D 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties held a steady TCR band

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.2 in 2021 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.2 · 2022=12.8 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Red Wing, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 157% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO S.E.W. Friel LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S.E.W. Friel LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties averages 5.2 TCR (157% of the Sauces,tomatobased,canning BLS benchmark).

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

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties TCR series: 2021=3.2 · 2022=12.8 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.3

Where FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties falls in its industry

330 Sauces,tomatobased,canning establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Sauces,tomatobased,canning employers in Minnesota.

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties (80 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties
FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties (80 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

FSS INC dba Food Service Specialties has fewer employees than the Sauces,tomatobased,canning median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 3.4 0.0 0 3 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2022 12.8 9.9 9 0 0
2021 3.2 2.6 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · MN · Red Wing

330 Sauces,tomatobased,canning employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 68 employers in Red Wing, 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 S.E.W. Friel LLC 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tree Top, Inc-Woodburn Plant 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seneca Foods Ripon 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Del Monte Foods Fields Dep #206 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wadena 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wysan Precast 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enclos Corp. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeville 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Red Wing 606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Wing Sala 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Wing, MN 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 418 FTE
NAT-TCR Charleston Service Center 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Canton 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Coffeyville Ks 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Biomerics LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Casey Industrial Corp. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Cleveland/Twinsburg 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Mirage Inn 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE EMC Precision II 80 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. 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.