Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · Minnesota

Herman Mega Plant

Herman, MN · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Herman Mega Plant runs at 412% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Herman Mega Plant: 9.1 TCR = 412% of Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Herman Mega Plant safety composite

Herman Mega Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Herman Mega Plant: 9.2 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2018

Herman Mega Plant's TCR rose 3.2 from 9.2 in 2016 to 12.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Herman, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 412% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #61/72
  • PHOTO BWS 1303 SCHULENBURG
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BWS 1303 SCHULENBURG (0.0 TCR gap)

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Herman Mega Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Herman Mega Plant averages 9.1 TCR (412% of the Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Herman Mega Plant TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2017=5.6 · 2018=12.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Herman Mega Plant falls in its industry

1,202 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 72 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesa employers in Minnesota.

Herman Mega Plant (19 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Herman Mega Plant
Herman Mega Plant (19 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Herman Mega Plant has fewer employees than the Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2018 12.4 6.2 2 0 0
2017 5.6 5.6 1 0 0
2016 9.2 4.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · MN · Herman

1,202 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Herman, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR BWS 1303 SCHULENBURG 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Marshfield 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Galton 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern States Russellville Coop 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin Breeding 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Tilney MN 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danvers 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon, MN 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herman-Norcross School 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Herman Mega Plant/Office 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vigen Construction- Herman, MN 18 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Charles (Lalkc) 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Area Residential Care Main Building 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR KWF GA East Point Distribution Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4800 Kindred Rehab Hosp Northeast 9.1 TCR

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: 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.