Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Leaf River Ag Service

Wadena, MN · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Leaf River Ag Service runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Leaf River Ag Service: 4.0 TCR = 183% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Leaf River Ag Service safety composite

Leaf River Ag Service scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Leaf River Ag Service: 3.5 → 8.5 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2018

Leaf River Ag Service's TCR rose 5.0 from 3.5 in 2016 to 8.5 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Wadena, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #31/72
  • PHOTO BRADLEY CALDWELL INC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BRADLEY CALDWELL INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Leaf River Ag Service in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Leaf River Ag Service averages 4.0 TCR (183% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Leaf River Ag Service TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=8.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Leaf River Ag Service falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 72 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Minnesota.

Leaf River Ag Service (31 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Leaf River Ag Service
Leaf River Ag Service (31 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Leaf River Ag Service has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 8.5 2.8 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 3.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · MN · Wadena

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 34 employers in Wadena, 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 BRADLEY CALDWELL INC 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Veterinary Solutions, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Birkey's Farm Store 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Pleasant 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Island Dairy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Protein Sources, LLP 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Dog Gen Plant-UC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Plant 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4246 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4246 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elementary 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homecrest Outdoor Living 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant 1 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3810 Wise Plastics Technologies 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CC Mentor Medical Office Building 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Peachtree Service Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Council Bluffs Branch 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wiles Bros. Fertilizer, Inc. 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Safety Administration/Accident Tracking 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kirk Masonry, Inc 31 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, 2017, 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.