Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing · Minnesota

Lakeside Foods, Inc

Name: Lakeside Foods, Inc Workplace Safety Data
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Brooten, MN · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.4
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Lakeside Foods, Inc runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Lakeside Foods, Inc: 4.4 TCR = 132% of Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakeside Foods, Inc safety composite

Lakeside Foods, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 45%), 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).

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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%).

Lakeside Foods, Inc held a steady TCR band

Lakeside Foods, Inc's TCR held near 0.2 from 5.3 in 2019 to 5.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.9 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.3 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311411 · Brooten, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 132% of ind

DART 2.6 DART
RANK #3/5
PHOTO B&G Foods
BOOK 4y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: B&G Foods (0.0 TCR gap)

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JR Simplot - F

4.3

What this shows Lakeside Foods, Inc averages 4.4 TCR (132% of the Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Lakeside Foods, Inc TCR series: 2019=5.3 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Lakeside Foods, Inc falls in its industry

224 Vegetables, frozen, manufactur establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 5 Vegetables, frozen, manufactur employers in Minnesota.

Lakeside Foods, Inc (56 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 161 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Lakeside Foods, Inc has fewer employees than the Vegetables, frozen, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2022	5.2	2.6	4
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	6.9	2.3	6
2019	5.3	1.1	5

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311411 · MN · Brooten

224 Vegetables, frozen, 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	B&G Foods	YUMA, AZ	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Zentis North America LLC	PLYMOUTH, IN	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Eckert Cold Storage	ESCALON, CA	4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	JR Simplot - Food - Idaho Plant	CALDWELL, ID	4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	LDC.FAR	SLEEPY EYE	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Public Utilities	NEW ULM	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Shakopee Public Utilities	SHAKOPEE	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CenterPoint Energy - Mankato	MANKATO	56 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lakeside Foods Brooten	Brooten	58 FTE
CITY-NEAR	City of Brooten	Brooten	32 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Glacial Wood Products, LLC	Brooten	24 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Brooten	Brooten	23 FTE
NAT-TCR	Advantage Air Conditioning ofVA	Sterling, VA	4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Regal Supply Company	Oklahoma City, OK	4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Stop & Shop 100716	North Kingstown, RI	4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fresh Ideas Management- William Woods University	Fulton, MO	4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bock Water Heaters, Inc	Madison, WI	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Independent Wind Solutions LLC.	Merkel, TX	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Corporate Office	Waco, TX	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Progressive Environmental Industries, Inc	Santa Barbara, CA	56 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.