Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · North Dakota

Guardian Energy Hankinson

Hankinson, ND · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Guardian Energy Hankinson runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Guardian Energy Hankinson: 6.2 TCR = 189% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guardian Energy Hankinson safety composite

Guardian Energy Hankinson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−8.8

2023→2024

Guardian Energy Hankinson injury rate improved

Guardian Energy Hankinson's TCR fell 8.8 from 10.7 in 2023 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.7 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Hankinson, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 189% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Badger State Ethanol…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Badger State Ethanol, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Guardian Energy Hankinson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Guardian Energy Hankinson averages 6.2 TCR (189% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Guardian Energy Hankinson TCR series: 2023=10.7 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Guardian Energy Hankinson falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in North Dakota.

Guardian Energy Hankinson (55 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Guardian Energy Hankinson
Guardian Energy Hankinson (55 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Guardian Energy Hankinson has more employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2023 10.7 8.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · ND · Hankinson

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 6 employers in Hankinson, 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 Badger State Ethanol, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Plains Holding II LLC - Riga 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining- Chancellor 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Plains Superior LLC 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Field Office 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watford Yard Office 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Gasification Company - BSL 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tharaldson Ethanol 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Gerard's Community of Care 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Gerards Community of Care 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hankinson Renewable Energy, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hankinson Store 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant 334 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR River Vista Farms LLC 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR East Otero 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Prisma-Greenville Mem 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oakdale A.L. Gilbert Co. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radio Design Labs 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colorado 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE TNT Concrete Supply 55 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.