Ethanol Production · Minnesota

Green Plains Fairmont LLC

Fairmont, MN · ~57 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Green Plains Fairmont LLC runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ethanol Production workplace, earning a grade D.

Green Plains Fairmont LLC: 4.3 TCR = 132% of Ethanol Production BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Green Plains Fairmont LLC safety composite

Green Plains Fairmont LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.5

2017→2024

Green Plains Fairmont LLC injury rate improved

Green Plains Fairmont LLC's TCR fell 9.5 from 9.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.5 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Fairmont, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 132% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/22
  • PHOTO Iroquois Bio-Energy
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Iroquois Bio-Energy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Green Plains Fairmont LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Green Plains Fairmont LLC averages 4.3 TCR (132% of the Ethanol Production BLS benchmark).

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

Green Plains Fairmont LLC TCR series: 2017=9.5 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Green Plains Fairmont LLC falls in its industry

228 Ethanol Production establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 22 Ethanol Production employers in Minnesota.

Green Plains Fairmont LLC (57 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Green Plains Fairmont LLC
Green Plains Fairmont LLC (57 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Green Plains Fairmont LLC has more employees than the Ethanol Production median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.3 0.0 2 0 0
2022 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2021 7.3 3.7 4 0 0
2020 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 9.5 8.0 6 0 0
2017 9.5 3.2 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · MN · Fairmont

228 Ethanol Production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 53 employers in Fairmont, 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 Iroquois Bio-Energy 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chief Ethanol Fuels- Hastings 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heron Lake BioEnergy LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Bend Ethanol, LLC 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwest Maintenance & Mechanical, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCC-Blaine 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Shore Track Services 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aid Electric Corporation 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont 476 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3806 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3806 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairmont - Main Store 169 FTE
NAT-TCR 01019-01-01-WOODLAND 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Driskill 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Westfield 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR O&G Industries, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bronx Day School 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE ABC Construction Company Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Round Rock 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE South Bend Ethanol, LLC 57 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.