Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers · Minnesota

Herman Mega Plant/Office

Name: Herman Mega Plant/Office Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Herman, MN · ~19 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 5.5
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Herman Mega Plant/Office runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Herman Mega Plant/Office: 5.5 TCR = 251% of Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Herman Mega Plant/Office safety composite

Herman Mega Plant/Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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/Office: 6.3 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.91× in 2023

Herman Mega Plant/Office's TCR rose 3.8 from 6.3 in 2019 to 10.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.91× 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 5.5 · 251% of ind

DART 5.0 DART
RANK #43/72
PHOTO Trenton Elevator
BOOK 5y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trenton Elevator (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.6
This site

5.5
Trenton Elevat

5.5
River Valley C

5.5
70302

5.5

What this shows Herman Mega Plant/Office averages 5.5 TCR (251% of the Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Herman Mega Plant/Office TCR series: 2019=6.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=10.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Herman Mega Plant/Office falls in its industry

1,202 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesa establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 72 Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesa employers in Minnesota.

Herman Mega Plant/Office (19 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Herman Mega Plant/Office 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
2023	10.1	5.0	2
2022	4.9	4.9	1
2021	6.3	0.0	1
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	6.3	6.3	1

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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Trenton Elevator	TRENTON, MO	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	River Valley Cooperative-Geneseo	GENESEO, IL	5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Dieterich	DIETERICH, IL	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	70302	FIVE POINTS, CA	5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sabin Breeding	SABIN	19 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Schwartz Farms Tilney MN	TRUMAN	19 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Danvers	DANVERS	19 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Glyndon, MN	GLYNDON	19 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Herman-Norcross School	Herman	51 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Herman Mega Plant	Herman	19 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Vigen Construction- Herman, MN	Herman	18 FTE
NAT-TCR	Marriott St. Louis Grand	Saint Louis, MO	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	RK-048-Jeffersonville ( RK-048 )	Jeffersonville, IN	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	608 - Natchez	Natchez, MS	5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dc 0111	Casa Grande, AZ	5.5 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.