Cold storage warehousing · Minnesota

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea

Albert Lea, MN · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cold storage warehousing workplace, earning a grade B.

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea: 4.4 TCR = 75% of Cold storage warehousing BLS 5.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea safety composite

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea: 0.0 → 13.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea's TCR rose 13.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 13.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Albert Lea, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 4.4 · 75% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/15
  • PHOTO Americold Westgate, …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Americold Westgate, Atlanta GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea averages 4.4 TCR (75% of the Cold storage warehousing BLS benchmark).

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

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=13.1 · BLS 5.8

Where Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea falls in its industry

1,039 Cold storage warehousing establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 15 Cold storage warehousing employers in Minnesota.

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea (25 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea
Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea (25 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Albert Lea has fewer employees than the Cold storage warehousing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 13.1 0.0 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · MN · Albert Lea

1,039 Cold storage warehousing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 Americold Westgate, Atlanta GA 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cold Storage Solutions I Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Martin Warehousing LLC 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Omaha Freezer 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Hutchinson, MN 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park Rapids Trucking 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lou-Rich Front Street 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Prinsco, Inc. - Appleton 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Montour Plant 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Devner Retread (GCR) 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Andersons Maumee Large Pack Plant Nutrient 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlanta West Recycle 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ngl Water Solutions, LLC-C6 Platteville 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom-Crete, San Antonio 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Redi-Mix, LLC Frisco 25 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.