Chicken egg production · Minnesota

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1

Gaylord, MN · ~479 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chicken egg production workplace, earning a grade A.

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1: 1.4 TCR = 32% of Chicken egg production BLS 4.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 safety composite

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 held a steady TCR band

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.2 in 2019 to 1.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.2 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112310 · Gaylord, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Unlimited Contract S…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~479 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unlimited Contract Services Bethune (0.0 TCR gap)

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Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 averages 1.4 TCR (32% of the Chicken egg production BLS benchmark).

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

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 TCR series: 2019=1.2 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=1 · BLS 4.5

Where Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 falls in its industry

351 Chicken egg production establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

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 10 Chicken egg production employers in Minnesota.

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 (479 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Michael Foods Inc.- GY1
Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 (479 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Michael Foods Inc.- GY1 has more employees than the Chicken egg production median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2021 1.0 1.0 5 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 10 1 0
2019 1.2 0.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112310 · MN · Gaylord

351 Chicken egg production employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 13 employers in Gaylord, 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 Unlimited Contract Services Bethune 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cal Maine Foods, inc 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Quality Egg Farm 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unlimited Contract Services Waelder 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2406 - Woodbury Commerce Drive 478 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston Scientific - Minnetonka 481 FTE
STATE-SIZE Commercial SE Field Employees 481 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scott County Government Center 481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wakefield Pork, Inc. 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Sibley 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Terrace Retirement Community of Gaylord 120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Terrace Health Care Center of Gaylord 73 FTE
NAT-TCR Elgin Reporting Center & Weld School 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio CAT - Cincinnati HE 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pental Granite and Marble Sea 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Procter and Gamble - Tabler Station 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Medtronic Memphis Swinnea 479 FTE
NAT-SIZE SAN - Ground Ops 479 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Student - East Main Street 479 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deerfield 479 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.