Ethanol Manufacturing · Minnesota

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC

Fergus Falls, MN · ~43 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ethanol Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Ethanol Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC safety composite

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−4.4

2017→2024

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC injury rate improved

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC's TCR fell 4.4 from 4.4 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Fergus Falls, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/22
  • PHOTO PureField Ingredient…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PureField Ingredients, Co-products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Green Plains Otter Tail LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Green Plains Otter Tail LLC averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Ethanol Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Green Plains Otter Tail LLC falls in its industry

228 Ethanol Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #4 safest of 22 Ethanol Manufacturing employers in Minnesota.

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC (43 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Otter Tail LLC
Green Plains Otter Tail LLC (43 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Green Plains Otter Tail LLC has fewer employees than the Ethanol Manufacturing median and a lower 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 4.8 0.0 2 0 0
2022 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.4 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · MN · Fergus Falls

228 Ethanol Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 77 employers in Fergus Falls, 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 PureField Ingredients, Co-products 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WE Hereford LLC 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Ethanol, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Element Ethanol 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edina Service Center 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wigen Water Technologies 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Multi-Family - Central (MN) 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Region Healthcare Corporation 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR LB Homes 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1696 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1696 237 FTE
NAT-TCR Millborn Seeds 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CE Shepherd Canada Dry 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Fletcher 61 Terminal Dr 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Colorado Springs 7770 Milton E Proby Pkwy 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Locust Grove 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany OR 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE MRC Ukiah Forestry 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fincher Trucking, LLC 43 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.