Grocery stores · Minnesota

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood

Name: Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Maplewood, MN · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 13.5
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood runs at 398% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood: 13.5 TCR = 398% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood safety composite

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 13.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood: 4.9 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 23.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood's TCR rose 5.1 from 4.9 in 2020 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 23.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Maplewood, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.5 · 398% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #311/327
PHOTO Store 1058
BOOK 5y book
INJ 14 inj
SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1058 (0.0 TCR gap)

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SXB 77

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What this shows Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood averages 13.5 TCR (398% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood TCR series: 2020=4.9 · 2021=14.7 · 2022=23.7 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #311 safest of 327 Grocery stores employers in Minnesota.

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood (36 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Knowlan's Fresh Foods Maplewood has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024	10.1	0.0	2
2023	14.3	9.5	3
2022	23.7	4.7	5
2021	14.7	4.9	3
2020	4.9	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · Maplewood

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Maplewood, 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	Store 1058	SANFORD (PITTSBORO), NC	13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	6962-SWY-0025-0025-00983	LAKEPORT, CA	13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	5472-NAI-0034-0034-01065	FORT LEE, NJ	13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SXB 77	WEXFORD, PA	13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Prairie Moon Nursery	WINONA	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corteva Agriscience - Olivia MN R&D	OLIVIA	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Central Counties Cooperative Litchfield	LITCHFIELD	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2011-Stanton, MN (Monsanto Co.)	STANTON	36 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3M Center	Maplewood	15,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FV St. John's Hospital	Maplewood	2,053 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FV St Johns Hospital	Maplewood	2,020 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. John's Hospital	Maplewood	1,574 FTE
NAT-TCR	2730 - San Clemente	San Clemente, CA	13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kimberly Nurseries LLC	Twin Falls, ID	13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Discover Goodwill of Southern and Western Colorado- Recycle/Salvage	Colorado Springs, CO	13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	OPC, Inc. - San Lorenzo	San Lorenzo, CA	13.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	The Manor	Slinger, WI	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bold Rock Cider - Mills River	Mills River, NC	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	deGraauw Electric LLC	Nashville, TN	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Adirondack Wood Bat Factory	Dolgeville, NY	36 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.