Food packaging machinery manufacturing · Minnesota

Lakeside Foods Brooten

Brooten, MN · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lakeside Foods Brooten runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Food packaging machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lakeside Foods Brooten: 5.0 TCR = 151% of Food packaging machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakeside Foods Brooten safety composite

Lakeside Foods Brooten scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Lakeside Foods Brooten: 1.1 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2018

Lakeside Foods Brooten's TCR rose 7.7 from 1.1 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333993 · Brooten, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 151% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Camp Street
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Camp Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lakeside Foods Brooten in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lakeside Foods Brooten averages 5.0 TCR (151% of the Food packaging machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lakeside Foods Brooten TCR series: 2016=1.1 · 2018=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Lakeside Foods Brooten falls in its industry

269 Food packaging machinery manuf establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 19 Food packaging machinery manuf employers in Minnesota.

Lakeside Foods Brooten (58 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Lakeside Foods Brooten
Lakeside Foods Brooten (58 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 2.4

Lakeside Foods Brooten has fewer employees than the Food packaging machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2018 8.9 2.5 7 0 0
2016 1.1 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333993 · MN · Brooten

269 Food packaging machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Brooten, 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 Camp Street 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mossville 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accu-Tec Dixie 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR PKG - Colorado 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vireo Health of MN - Otsego 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms SE Misc MN 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2101-Redwood Falls, MN (Monsanto Co.) 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Home Office 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeside Foods, Inc 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Brooten 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glacial Wood Products, LLC 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brooten 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Mesker Huntsville 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Drywall 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wall Street (AZ) 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Misericordia Home 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE FirstLight Power Resources - Northfield Mountain/NERC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tax - Greensboro 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mid-West Mfg. LLC, Chicago Heights Plant 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Village at Heritage Point 58 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: 2018, 2016. 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.