Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo

Name: Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo Workplace Safety Data
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Echo, MN · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.6
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo: 2.6 TCR = 118% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo safety composite

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2023 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 2.6 · 118% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #15/72
PHOTO Seedway - Hall
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seedway - Hall (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo averages 2.6 TCR (118% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 2.2

Where Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 72 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Minnesota.

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo (36 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Meadowland Farmers Coop - Echo has more employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower 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
2024	5.2	0.0	2	0	0
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · MN · Echo

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Echo, 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	Seedway - Hall	HALL, NY	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Warsaw	WARSAW, MO	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hawthorne Gardening - Aurora	AURORA, CO	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Willard Agri-Service of Lynch, Inc.	WORTON, MD	2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Prairie Moon Nursery	WINONA	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Corteva Agriscience - Olivia MN R&D	OLIVIA	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Central Counties Cooperative Litchfield	LITCHFIELD	36 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2011-Stanton, MN (Monsanto Co.)	STANTON	36 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FCO Echo	Echo	55 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CITY OF ECHO	Echo	7 FTE
NAT-TCR	Rome Hospitality Group, LLC	Rome, NY	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	PDM Stockton	Stockton, CA	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Holmes Lumber 160	Lancaster, OH	2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	137 Affton	St Louis, MO	2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	STR0497	Leesburg, FL	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	STR0388	Cape Coral, FL	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	STR0204	Lake City, FL	36 FTE
NAT-SIZE	STR0639	Hagerstown, MD	36 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.