Milking dairy cattle · Minnesota

New Sweden Dairy

Nicollet, MN · ~60 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Sweden Dairy runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade B.

New Sweden Dairy: 2.4 TCR = 53% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Sweden Dairy safety composite

New Sweden Dairy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2018→2024

New Sweden Dairy injury rate improved

New Sweden Dairy's TCR fell 3.3 from 4.7 in 2018 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Nicollet, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 53% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #17/28
  • PHOTO Linwood Management G…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Linwood Management Group LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Sweden Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Sweden Dairy averages 2.4 TCR (53% of the Milking dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

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

New Sweden Dairy TCR series: 2018=4.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=6 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 4.5

Where New Sweden Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 28 Milking dairy cattle employers in Minnesota.

New Sweden Dairy (60 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate New Sweden Dairy
New Sweden Dairy (60 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

New Sweden Dairy has more employees than the Milking dairy cattle median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2023 4.4 0.0 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.0 3.6 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.7 3.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · MN · Nicollet

530 Milking dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Nicollet, 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 Linwood Management Group LLC 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dairy 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TX-NPDF-TEXAS 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Desertview 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Living Greens Farm 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Customer Service Support 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin Cities Specialties 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Riley Construction 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hewitt Machine & Mfg. Inc. 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schmidt's Meat Market 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agropur-Nicollet Food Ingredients 16 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granby Calf Ranch 12 FTE
NAT-TCR Republic Doors and Frames 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinnacle Oil Holdings, LLC - Warehouse 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Safari Circuits, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American Cable & Harness LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Genesis Surgery Center 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE ProVia Logistics LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE OG&E-Seminole PP; EGX Gath/Trans 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bouckaert Industrial Textiles, Inc. 60 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.