Creamery butter manufacturing · Minnesota

New Ulm

New Ulm, MN · ~722 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Ulm runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Creamery butter manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

New Ulm: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Creamery butter manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Ulm safety composite

New Ulm scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

New Ulm: 2.1 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

New Ulm's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.1 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311512 · New Ulm, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK P69
  • PHOTO Land O'Lakes - Kent,…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 132 inj
  • SIZE ~722 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Land O'Lakes - Kent, Ohio (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Ulm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Ulm averages 2.7 TCR (83% of the Creamery butter manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

New Ulm TCR series: 2017=2.1 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=2.6 · 2021=3.1 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where New Ulm falls in its industry

32 Creamery butter manufacturing establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
New Ulm (722 employees, TCR 2.7) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 23 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate New Ulm
New Ulm (722 employees, TCR 2.7) among 22 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 4.2

New Ulm has more employees than the Creamery butter manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 3.3 2.3 19 3 0
2023 3.0 1.6 14 6 0
2022 3.5 2.4 24 1 0
2021 3.1 1.5 21 0 0
2020 2.6 1.7 17 1 0
2019 2.7 1.1 16 4 0
2018 1.5 0.6 10 2 0
2017 2.1 1.1 11 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311512 · MN · New Ulm

32 Creamery butter manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 79 employers in New Ulm, 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 Land O'Lakes - Kent, Ohio 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keller's Creamery - Winnsboro 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indianapolis IN (Reddi Wip) 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Darigold-Caldwell 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Banner Engineering Corp 723 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottage Grove Site 719 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tactile Systems Technology Inc Corp 725 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation - Center City 725 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc. 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm Medical Center 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martin Luther College 441 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc. - MN 333 FTE
NAT-TCR Wahpeton-US-Production 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dgdg 5, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bartlesville, OK 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Finishing Touch Millwork, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chain Electric Company 722 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jersey City 722 FTE
NAT-SIZE Philips Healthcare Cleveland 722 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon Robotics BOS12 722 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.