Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Inver Grove Heights

Inver Grove Heights, MN · ~394 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Inver Grove Heights runs at 152% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Inver Grove Heights: 3.3 TCR = 152% of Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Inver Grove Heights safety composite

Inver Grove Heights scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 48%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Inver Grove Heights: 0.1 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2023

Inver Grove Heights's TCR rose 3.4 from 0.1 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424480 · Inver Grove Heights, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.3 · 152% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO JHP PRODUCE, INC.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~394 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JHP PRODUCE, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Inver Grove Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Inver Grove Heights averages 3.3 TCR (152% of the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Inver Grove Heights TCR series: 2016=0.1 · 2018=4.6 · 2020=5.2 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=3.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Inver Grove Heights falls in its industry

369 Berries, fresh, merchant whole establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Berries, fresh, merchant whole employers in Minnesota.

Inver Grove Heights (394 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Inver Grove Heights
Inver Grove Heights (394 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 83 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Inver Grove Heights has more employees than the Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2023 3.5 3.5 8 0 0
2022 3.4 3.0 8 0 0
2020 5.2 3.1 7 3 0
2018 4.6 4.6 3 0 0
2016 0.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424480 · MN · Inver Grove Heights

369 Berries, fresh, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 59 employers in Inver Grove Heights, 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 JHP PRODUCE, INC. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keith Wilcox & Sons 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carbonella and Desarbo 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calavo SPPH 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 1999 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE Essentia Virginia Hospital 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Living Options 394 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goodwill Industries Vocational Enterprises, Inc. 394 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Inver Grove Heights 588 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD 199 582 FTE
CITY-NEAR City Hall Main Office 565 FTE
CITY-NEAR IGH Retail 359 FTE
NAT-TCR Cambridge Street #179 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amrep Salisbury 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Gordon Super Foods 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Zutat Feed Solutions, LLC 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chippewa Falls Distribution Center 394 FTE
NAT-SIZE ORPKFLWA01 394 FTE
NAT-SIZE Desert Research Institute 394 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sargent Corporation 394 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2018, 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.