Grocery stores · Minnesota

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul

South St. Paul, MN · ~37 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul: 6.4 TCR = 189% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul safety composite

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.9

2020→2024

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul injury rate improved

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul's TCR fell 8.9 from 8.9 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.9 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · South St. Paul, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 189% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #212/327
  • PHOTO Store 1053
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1053 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul averages 6.4 TCR (189% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul TCR series: 2020=8.9 · 2021=9.2 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #212 safest of 327 Grocery stores employers in Minnesota.

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul (37 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul
Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul (37 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Knowlan's Fresh Foods South St. Paul 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 9.3 4.7 2 0 0
2021 9.2 4.6 2 0 0
2020 8.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · South St. Paul

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 16 employers in South St. Paul, 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 Store 1053 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10432 Ocean Ave 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 21 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 703-00165 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Betaseed Inc - Shakopee 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pals 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Support 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Rapids Public Utilities Commission 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR South St. Paul Campus 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Care Center 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR RSS - South St. Paul 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schadegg Mechanical, Inc. 179 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Alton, IL - Police 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mason Health and Rehabilitation Center 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR South Shore Community Action Council, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbors at Fairlawn 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quality Mushrooms, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fortune Metal Midwest, LLC GA 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLAAS of America Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hooters of South Gate 37 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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