Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Heartland Agriculture

Hutchinson, MN · ~298 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heartland Agriculture runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Heartland Agriculture: 4.0 TCR = 180% of Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heartland Agriculture safety composite

Heartland Agriculture scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Heartland Agriculture: 2.4 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2021

Heartland Agriculture's TCR rose 3.1 from 2.4 in 2020 to 5.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Hutchinson, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 180% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #10/40
  • PHOTO Franklinton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~298 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Franklinton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heartland Agriculture in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heartland Agriculture averages 4.0 TCR (180% of the Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Heartland Agriculture TCR series: 2020=2.4 · 2021=5.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Heartland Agriculture falls in its industry

700 Sprayers, farm-type, merchant establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 40 Sprayers, farm-type, merchant employers in Minnesota.

Heartland Agriculture (298 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Heartland Agriculture
Heartland Agriculture (298 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Heartland Agriculture has more employees than the Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesaler median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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
2021 5.5 3.4 18 0 0
2020 2.4 2.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · MN · Hutchinson

700 Sprayers, farm-type, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 78 employers in Hutchinson, 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 Franklinton 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rueters Elkhart 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WCTractor 11 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maine Potato Growers, Inc. 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1472 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEH - St. Paul 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE MacQueen Equipment 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Department of Corrections - Shakopee 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson 1,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0898 HUTCHINSON HOSPITAL 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1738 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1738 294 FTE
NAT-TCR Board Store Home Improvements, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Labor Contracting Service 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2253-H4660 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TNFOAMPLANT 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hc - Cs S 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit 300 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pleasant View Communities 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Haven Operations 298 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: 2021, 2020. 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.