Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked · Minnesota

Melrose Plant

Melrose, MN · ~714 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Melrose Plant runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked workplace, earning a grade C.

Melrose Plant: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Melrose Plant safety composite

Melrose Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.0

2018→2024

Melrose Plant injury rate improved

Melrose Plant's TCR fell 2.0 from 4.4 in 2018 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.4 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311615 · Melrose, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #6/16
  • PHOTO KOch Foods Ashland
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 164 inj
  • SIZE ~714 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KOch Foods Ashland (0.0 TCR gap)

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Melrose Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Melrose Plant averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked BLS benchmark).

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

Melrose Plant TCR series: 2018=4.4 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=5.3 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Melrose Plant falls in its industry

509 Turkeys, processing, fresh, fr establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #6 safest of 16 Turkeys, processing, fresh, fr employers in Minnesota.

Melrose Plant (714 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Melrose Plant
Melrose Plant (714 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 619 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Melrose Plant has more employees than the Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, cann 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 2.4 1.7 14 0 0
2023 0.6 0.4 4 0 0
2022 2.3 1.7 16 0 0
2021 2.9 2.3 20 0 0
2020 5.3 4.4 33 0 0
2019 5.6 4.8 43 0 0
2018 4.4 3.8 34 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311615 · MN · Melrose

509 Turkeys, processing, fresh, frozen, canned, or cooked employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 24 employers in Melrose, 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 KOch Foods Ashland 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR PILGRIMS MT PLEASANT WEST PLANT 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR House of Raeford Farms, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CP-Carrollton, GA 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benchmark Winona 716 FTE
STATE-SIZE 401 Nicollet Mall-HQ 717 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - MSP5 718 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arena-Admin MN 710 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose CentraCare Health 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare - Melrose 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose Area Public Schools 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Melrose 198 FTE
NAT-TCR Inland Dredging Company 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ellenton Ag Services, Inc 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Steel Dynamics Flat Roll Group - NexTech 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Angeles - MSS 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Poynter Sheet Metal Inc 714 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Regency Orlando 714 FTE
NAT-SIZE PetroChoice Holdings, Inc 714 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cucamonga Plant 714 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.