Breakfast cereals manufacturing · Minnesota

Kerry Blue Earth

Name: Kerry Blue Earth Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Blue Earth, MN · ~161 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

Kerry Blue Earth runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Breakfast cereals manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kerry Blue Earth: 6.5 TCR = 196% of Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerry Blue Earth safety composite

Kerry Blue Earth scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Kerry Blue Earth held a steady TCR band

Kerry Blue Earth's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.5 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.5 · 2020=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311230 · Blue Earth, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 196% of ind

DART 3.5 DART
RANK #5/5
PHOTO Stoltze Specialty Pr…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 20 inj
SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stoltze Specialty Processing (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kerry Ingredie

6.7
This site

6.5
Stoltze Specia

6.3
Attune Foods

5.8
Bridgetown Nat

5.8

What this shows Kerry Blue Earth averages 6.5 TCR (196% of the Breakfast cereals manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Kerry Blue Earth TCR series: 2017=6.5 · 2020=6.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Kerry Blue Earth falls in its industry

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturin establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Breakfast cereals manufacturin employers in Minnesota.

Kerry Blue Earth (161 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 233 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Kerry Blue Earth has fewer employees than the Breakfast cereals manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2020	6.4	3.5	11	0	0
2017	6.5	5.1	9	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311230 · MN · Blue Earth

60 Breakfast cereals manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 15 employers in Blue Earth, MN · 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	Stoltze Specialty Processing	MEDFORD, WI	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Kerry Ingredients	MECCA, CA	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Attune Foods	EUGENE, OR	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bridgetown Natural Foods	PORTLAND, OR	5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	ROSEVILLE MN PLANT	ROSEVILLE	161 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wis-Pak of Mankato and La Crosse	MANKATO	161 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Northland Process Piping	ISLE	161 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corporate Office	OAKDALE	161 FTE
CITY-NEAR	United Hospital District	Blue Earth	259 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St Lukes Main	Blue Earth	175 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2892_5597	Blue Earth	144 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Seneca Foods	Blue Earth	132 FTE
NAT-TCR	Arden Courts of Palm Harbor	Palm Harbor, FL	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Carlyle Place, Navicent Health	Macon, GA	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	79 Crossing	St. Peters, MO	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ross store 1406	West Melbourne, FL	6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	DCB Bremen	Bremen, GA	161 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Applied Process Cooling Corporation	Modesto, CA	161 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Camso Manufacturing USA, Ltd.	Emporia, KS	161 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NOV Rolligon Anderson	Anderson, TX	161 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: 2020, 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.