General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility

Vadnais Heights, MN · ~143 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility: 3.6 TCR = 163% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility safety composite

Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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 Sales & DSD Facility: 3.3 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2017

Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility's TCR rose 0.6 from 3.3 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Vadnais Heights, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 163% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #7/38
  • PHOTO Foodservice Knoxvill…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Foodservice Knoxville - 0570 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility averages 3.6 TCR (163% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=3.9 · BLS 2.2

Where Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

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 38 General-line groceries merchan employers in Minnesota.

Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility (143 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility
Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility (143 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Minnesota Sales & DSD Facility has fewer employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2017 3.9 3.9 4 0 0
2016 3.3 2.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MN · Vadnais Heights

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 42 employers in Vadnais Heights, 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 Foodservice Knoxville - 0570 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hanover Sales 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5406 - GF Huntsville 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Baldwin, FL (PDC) 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Novel Energy Solutions L.L.C. 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electronic Communication Systems LLC 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE Weidner Plumbing and Heating Company 143 FTE
STATE-SIZE McC Corporate Office 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN State Operated Community Services (MSOCS) 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2087 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2087 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAC Mechanical & Electrical 338 FTE
NAT-TCR KraftHeinz Granite City 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wixom (Miwix) 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Weeks Marine Equipment Maintenance 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR New Holstein, WI- Plant 2 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Springfield West LLC 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Timberland LLC 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herndon Farms 143 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center 143 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: 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.