Dry milk products and mixture manufacturing · Minnesota

Kerry Rochester

Rochester, MN · ~130 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kerry Rochester runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Dry milk products and mixture manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Kerry Rochester: 3.1 TCR = 93% of Dry milk products and mixture manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kerry Rochester safety composite

Kerry Rochester scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2019→2021

Kerry Rochester injury rate improved

Kerry Rochester's TCR fell 2.4 from 3.1 in 2019 to 0.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.1 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311514 · Rochester, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 93% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #7/18
  • PHOTO Bay Valley Foods, LL…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bay Valley Foods, LLC New Hampton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kerry Rochester in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kerry Rochester averages 3.1 TCR (93% of the Dry milk products and mixture manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kerry Rochester TCR series: 2019=3.1 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kerry Rochester falls in its industry

185 Dry milk products and mixture establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 18 Dry milk products and mixture employers in Minnesota.

Kerry Rochester (130 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kerry Rochester
Kerry Rochester (130 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kerry Rochester has more employees than the Dry milk products and mixture manufactur median and a lower 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2021 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2020 5.3 3.8 6 1 0
2019 3.1 3.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311514 · MN · Rochester

185 Dry milk products and mixture 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 Bay Valley Foods, LLC New Hampton 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darigold Lynden Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milk Specialties Global Norfolk 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Foods Corp 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Faribault Grow Out 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Design Electric INC. 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARK Parent, LLC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vinylite Windows, LLC dba Vector 130 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 Schmid Thermal Systems, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-98009) 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical Laundry of the Tri Cities 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowling Green 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE PHG Noblesville 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vinita Facility 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Care at Home (247-CONHH) 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Natgasoline LLC 130 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. 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.