Anhydrous ammonia manufacturing · North Dakota

Great Plains Synfuels Plant

Beulah, ND · ~563 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Great Plains Synfuels Plant runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Anhydrous ammonia manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Great Plains Synfuels Plant: 2.6 TCR = 80% of Anhydrous ammonia manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Plains Synfuels Plant safety composite

Great Plains Synfuels Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−2.8

2016→2024

Great Plains Synfuels Plant injury rate improved

Great Plains Synfuels Plant's TCR fell 2.8 from 4.3 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325311 · Beulah, ND AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 80% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK P42
  • PHOTO Pryor Chemical Company
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 122 inj
  • SIZE ~563 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pryor Chemical Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Plains Synfuels Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Plains Synfuels Plant averages 2.6 TCR (80% of the Anhydrous ammonia manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Great Plains Synfuels Plant TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Great Plains Synfuels Plant falls in its industry

85 Anhydrous ammonia manufacturin establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Great Plains Synfuels Plant (563 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 Great Plains Synfuels Plant
Great Plains Synfuels Plant (563 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Great Plains Synfuels Plant has more employees than the Anhydrous ammonia manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 1.5 0.2 8 0 0
2023 2.5 0.4 13 0 0
2022 1.9 0.5 8 0 0
2021 2.4 1.0 12 0 0
2020 3.1 0.8 16 0 0
2019 2.5 0.9 12 1 0
2018 2.9 0.9 19 0 0
2016 4.3 1.4 34 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325311 · ND · Beulah

85 Anhydrous ammonia manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 10 employers in Beulah, ND · 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 Pryor Chemical Company 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sergeant Bluff, IA - PN 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Upper Sandusky 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR PAN AMERICAN GRAIN COMPANY-FERTILIZER 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE HIT Inc 575 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - FAR1 550 FTE
STATE-SIZE Integrity Windows and Doors - Fargo 544 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strata Corporation 585 FTE
CITY-NEAR Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Antelope Valley Station 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Knife River Care Center 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coyote Station 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dakota Gasification Company - BSL 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Hausmann Construction Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Beau Rivage Resorts Inc 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR RESH, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Costello Dismantling Company, Inc. 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE City Government - General Government 563 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Du Chien 563 FTE
NAT-SIZE TLC Plumbing & Utility 563 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center - Greencastle 563 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, 2016. 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.