Denatured alcohol manufacturing · South Dakota

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton

Name: James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Groton, SD · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.5
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton: 6.5 TCR = 196% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton safety composite

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton held a steady TCR band

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton's TCR held near 0.0 from 6.5 in 2016 to 6.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 6.5 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.5 · 2017=6.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Groton, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 196% of ind

DART 4.3 DART
RANK #21/23
PHOTO Bushmills Ethanol, I…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bushmills Ethanol, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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This site

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What this shows James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton averages 6.5 TCR (196% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton TCR series: 2016=6.5 · 2017=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 23 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in South Dakota.

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton (45 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

James Valley Ethanol dba Poet Biorefining Groton has fewer employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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	6.5	4.3	3	0	0
2016	6.5	2.2	2	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · SD · Groton

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Groton, SD · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Bushmills Ethanol, Inc.	ATWATER, MN	6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Poet Biorefining - Iowa Falls LLC	IOWA FALLS, IA	6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KAAPA Partners Aurora, LLC	AURORA, NE	6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Green Plains Bluffton LLC	BLUFFTON, IN	6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pierre	PIERRE	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mitchell Office and Warehouse	MITCHELL	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mills Construction Inc	BROOKINGS	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Jans Corporation	SIOUX FALLS	45 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Avantara Groton	Groton	43 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Poet Biorefining - Groton	Groton	42 FTE
NAT-TCR	Riverbend Assisted Living Community	Jeffersonville, IN	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fairfield Works - Flat Rolled	Farifield, AL	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	George's Springdale Feed Mill	Springdale, AR	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Maspeth (Nymas)	Maspeth, NY	6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ADS Waverly	Waverly, NY	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	A.P. Eberlein Co., Inc.	Longmont, CO	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Advance Transit, Inc.	Wilder, VT	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Clean Venture Inc. - Clayton	Clayton, NJ	45 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.