Pallet Wood Plant · Minnesota

Lake City,MN - 565

Lake City, MN · ~69 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake City,MN - 565 runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallet Wood Plant workplace, earning a grade F.

Lake City,MN - 565: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Pallet Wood Plant BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake City,MN - 565 safety composite

Lake City,MN - 565 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Lake City,MN - 565: 5.6 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Lake City,MN - 565's TCR rose 2.0 from 5.6 in 2022 to 7.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Lake City, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/18
  • PHOTO Recycled Dallas (USRX)
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Recycled Dallas (USRX) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake City,MN - 565 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake City,MN - 565 averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Pallet Wood Plant BLS benchmark).

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

Lake City,MN - 565 TCR series: 2022=5.6 · 2023=7 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Lake City,MN - 565 falls in its industry

952 Pallet Wood Plant establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Pallet Wood Plant employers in Minnesota.

Lake City,MN - 565 (69 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lake City,MN - 565
Lake City,MN - 565 (69 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Lake City,MN - 565 has more employees than the Pallet Wood Plant median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 7.5 0.0 5 0 0
2023 7.0 5.6 5 0 0
2022 5.6 5.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · MN · Lake City

952 Pallet Wood Plant employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 20 employers in Lake City, 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 Recycled Dallas (USRX) 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gruber Pallets, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SC-NC-SILER CITY 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WIC Carrollton Crosby Location 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE WindLogics St. Paul 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Region Electric Cooperative 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Restoration Professionals, Inc 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Field & Shop 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearth & Home Technologies 576 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake City Plant 445 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake City 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Lake City 187 FTE
NAT-TCR Nelbud 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Avamere at Rio Rancho 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Scottsdale 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Care One at Randolph 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Denver,CO - 434 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Campo Farms, Inc. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lifsey 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE KIK Georgia 69 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.