Ice cream manufacturing · Minnesota

Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant

Rochester, MN · ~191 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ice cream manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant: 4.4 TCR = 134% of Ice cream manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant safety composite

Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant: 2.7 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2021

Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.7 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.4 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311520 · Rochester, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 134% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK P56
  • PHOTO South Ice Cream Plant
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Ice Cream Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant averages 4.4 TCR (134% of the Ice cream manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant falls in its industry

111 Ice cream manufacturing establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant (191 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant
Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant (191 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 139 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Kemps Rochester Ice Cream Plant has more employees than the Ice cream manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 3.1 2.7 7 0 0
2020 4.5 4.5 8 0 0
2019 7.4 6.8 11 1 0
2017 2.7 1.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311520 · MN · Rochester

111 Ice cream manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, 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 South Ice Cream Plant 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brenham 01 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wheeling 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valley Dairy Corporate Office 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Park Construction Company 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zero Zone Refrigeration, LLC 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spectralytics, Inc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Sales Inc. Burnsville 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakeside Industries, Inc. (110) 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Syracuse 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethel Save-A-Lot 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherokee Country Club 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 103988 - Long Ridge Energy Generation 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bay Cities Produce Inc 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tower International 191 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, 2019, 2017. 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.