Canning fruits and vegetables · Minnesota

Lakeside Foods Owatonna

Owatonna, MN · ~214 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lakeside Foods Owatonna runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Canning fruits and vegetables workplace, earning a grade C.

Lakeside Foods Owatonna: 3.9 TCR = 119% of Canning fruits and vegetables BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakeside Foods Owatonna safety composite

Lakeside Foods Owatonna scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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 Owatonna: 3.4 → 4.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

Lakeside Foods Owatonna's TCR rose 1.0 from 3.4 in 2023 to 4.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 119% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Indiana Plant
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~214 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Indiana Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lakeside Foods Owatonna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lakeside Foods Owatonna averages 3.9 TCR (119% of the Canning fruits and vegetables BLS benchmark).

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

Lakeside Foods Owatonna TCR series: 2023=3.4 · 2024=4.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Lakeside Foods Owatonna falls in its industry

330 Canning fruits and vegetables establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 11 Canning fruits and vegetables employers in Minnesota.

Lakeside Foods Owatonna (214 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lakeside Foods Owatonna
Lakeside Foods Owatonna (214 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Lakeside Foods Owatonna has more employees than the Canning fruits and vegetables median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 4.4 4.0 9 0 0
2023 3.4 2.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · MN · Owatonna

330 Canning fruits and vegetables employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, 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 Indiana Plant 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indian Summer 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Walnut Creek Foods Manufacturing 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seneca Foods Hancock 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Distinctive Floral Company 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alumacraft - MN 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medtronic ILS 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE DenWin Inc 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Renaissance Raleigh North Hills Hotel 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Harbor 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Madisonville Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 5138 - Rapid City 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mt Storm Pw St 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Skyline Electric 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Martins 6524 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Specialty Printing, LLC 214 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.