Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Owatonna Agronomy

Owatonna, MN · ~22 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Owatonna Agronomy runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Owatonna Agronomy: 2.8 TCR = 126% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Owatonna Agronomy safety composite

Owatonna Agronomy scores strongest on dart rate (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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Owatonna Agronomy held a steady TCR band

Owatonna Agronomy's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=4.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.8 · 126% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/72
  • PHOTO Wheeler
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wheeler (0.0 TCR gap)

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Owatonna Agronomy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Owatonna Agronomy averages 2.8 TCR (126% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Owatonna Agronomy TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=4 · 2020=0 · 2022=7.9 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.2

Where Owatonna Agronomy falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 62% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 72 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Minnesota.

Owatonna Agronomy (22 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Owatonna Agronomy
Owatonna Agronomy (22 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Owatonna Agronomy has fewer employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2022 7.9 3.9 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.0 4.0 1 0 0
2018 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · MN · Owatonna

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, 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 Wheeler 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uvalde, TX 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Local Seed Company, LLC 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Great Bend 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunrise Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerald Spring Dairy, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Greenstreak Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dassel 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Pan American Grain Company-Fertilizer 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston South Loop 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR General Coatings Manufacturing Corp. 2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bender Lumber 2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Anderson Packaging LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beaver Creek Products, LLC 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Heyworth 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Austin Powder Midsouth - LaFollette 22 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.