Yeast manufacturing · Minnesota

Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC

Hutchinson, MN · ~37 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC runs at 307% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Yeast manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC: 12.6 TCR = 307% of Yeast manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC safety composite

Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 Specialty Yeast, LLC: 2.7 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 39.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC's TCR rose 2.9 from 2.7 in 2019 to 5.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 39.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · Hutchinson, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 307% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Specialty Products
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Specialty Products (0.1 TCR gap)

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Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC averages 12.6 TCR (307% of the Yeast manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC TCR series: 2019=2.7 · 2020=39 · 2021=3 · 2022=5.6 · BLS 4.1

Where Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC falls in its industry

335 Yeast manufacturing establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 9 Yeast manufacturing employers in Minnesota.

Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC (37 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC
Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC (37 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Minnesota Specialty Yeast, LLC has fewer employees than the Yeast manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2022 5.6 0.0 0 2 0
2021 3.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 39.0 11.2 4 10 0
2019 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · MN · Hutchinson

335 Yeast manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 78 employers in Hutchinson, 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 Specialty Products 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Honey Holding I Ltd dba Honey Solutions 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Estherville Foods Inc 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR McLure's Honey & Maple Products, Inc. 11.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Betaseed Inc - Shakopee 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pals 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supply Support 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand Rapids Public Utilities Commission 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson 1,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0898 HUTCHINSON HOSPITAL 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1738 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heartland Agriculture 298 FTE
NAT-TCR Fassio Egg Farms - Erda 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Naturwood Home Furnishings, Inc. 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00103 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00189 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Craig Drilling 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE PerkinElmer - Greenville 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foundation Geotextiles LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.K.S. Plumbing Corporation 37 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: 2022, 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.