Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing · Minnesota

North Star Processing, LLC

Name: North Star Processing, LLC Workplace Safety Data
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Litchfield, MN · ~97 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 13.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

North Star Processing, LLC runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

North Star Processing, LLC: 13.8 TCR = 420% of Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North Star Processing, LLC safety composite

North Star Processing, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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).

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 13.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

North Star Processing, LLC: 11.1 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2023

North Star Processing, LLC's TCR rose 5.5 from 11.1 in 2022 to 16.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311423 · Litchfield, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 420% of ind

DART 9.5 DART
RANK #5/5
PHOTO Cresco Food Technolo…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 28 inj
SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cresco Food Technologies (0.4 TCR gap)

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13.4
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13.4
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13.3

What this shows North Star Processing, LLC averages 13.8 TCR (420% of the Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

North Star Processing, LLC TCR series: 2022=11.1 · 2023=16.6 · BLS 3.3

Where North Star Processing, LLC falls in its industry

123 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrat establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrat employers in Minnesota.

North Star Processing, LLC (97 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 5.5

North Star Processing, LLC has more employees than the Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manuf median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2023	16.6	9.5	14	0	0
2022	11.1	7.9	14	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311423 · MN · Litchfield

123 Fruit and vegetables, dehydrating, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 48 employers in Litchfield, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Cresco Food Technologies	WOODBURY, MN	13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Northland Drying LLC	ARLINGTON, MN	13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Idaho Pacific - Center	CENTER, CO	13.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Idaho Pacific Colorado Corporation	CENTER, CO	15.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Crow Wing Power	BRAINERD	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Newport Service Center-NB	NEWPORT	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Perham, MN (AEIS)	PERHAM	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Premise,Inc.	MINNEAPOLIS	97 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Litchfield ISD #465	Litchfield	358 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Litchfield, MN	Litchfield	332 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bobcat Doosan Litchfield	Litchfield	293 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 4374	Litchfield	214 FTE
NAT-TCR	Best Friends Animal Sanctuary	Kanab, UT	13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chinatowne Furniture	Solvay, NY	13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Custom Plumbing, Inc	Wpb, FL	13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Main Office	Tecumseh, OK	13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Alvarado Mfg / dormakaba	Chino, CA	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bob Miller Masonry Inc.	Sarasota, FL	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	PF Lawton SNF Ops, LLC	Lawton, OK	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Maple Ridge Care Center	Spooner, WI	97 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: 2023, 2022. 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.