Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing · Minnesota

Hazel Sunflower Plant

Hazel, MN · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hazel Sunflower Plant runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hazel Sunflower Plant: 7.7 TCR = 189% of Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hazel Sunflower Plant safety composite

Hazel Sunflower Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−15.5

2016→2017

Hazel Sunflower Plant injury rate improved

Hazel Sunflower Plant's TCR fell 15.5 from 15.5 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 15.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.5 · 2017=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311911 · Hazel, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.7 · 189% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Northampton Peanut C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northampton Peanut Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hazel Sunflower Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hazel Sunflower Plant averages 7.7 TCR (189% of the Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hazel Sunflower Plant TCR series: 2016=15.5 · 2017=0 · BLS 4.1

Where Hazel Sunflower Plant falls in its industry

150 Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter employers in Minnesota.

Hazel Sunflower Plant (20 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hazel Sunflower Plant
Hazel Sunflower Plant (20 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Hazel Sunflower Plant has fewer employees than the Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 15.5 10.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311911 · MN · Hazel

150 Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butter Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 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 Northampton Peanut Company 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primex Farms 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mariani Nut Company 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sungold - Horace 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE C74 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNSGA-SEL-SELECT GENETICS ADMIN' 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bees Minnesota 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Greece Ambulance 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR FTE Network Services 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0569 - Nampa, Id 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR New Iberia (Lanib) 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 105 Stonecrest Drive 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Shreveport 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0787 - Cullman, Al 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0751 - Ridgecrest, Ca 20 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.