Grocery stores · Minnesota

People's Food Coop

Rochester, MN · ~71 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

People's Food Coop runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

People's Food Coop: 6.7 TCR = 197% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

People's Food Coop safety composite

People's Food Coop scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.8

2020→2024

People's Food Coop injury rate improved

People's Food Coop's TCR fell 5.8 from 8.3 in 2020 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.3 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=9.0 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Rochester, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.7 · 197% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #222/327
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 102
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 102 (0.0 TCR gap)

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People's Food Coop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows People's Food Coop averages 6.7 TCR (197% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

People's Food Coop TCR series: 2020=8.3 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=9 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.4

Where People's Food Coop falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #222 safest of 327 Grocery stores employers in Minnesota.

People's Food Coop (71 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate People's Food Coop
People's Food Coop (71 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

People's Food Coop has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2023 7.5 2.5 3 0 0
2022 9.0 2.3 4 0 0
2021 6.3 4.2 3 0 0
2020 8.3 6.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · Rochester

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, 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 The Fresh Market 102 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FAREWAY STORES, INC. 554 WASHINGTON 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10366 Bishops Corner 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 615-00073 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fagen, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rochester Office 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donlar Construction Company 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanson Silo Company 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR Northern Lights Candles 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Harvester Foundry 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems CASA1 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Continental Tire the Americas, LLC 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Presidio Logistics, LLC 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Asc - Ago 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunrite Excavation Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Magnum Magnetics Corporation - Caldwell 71 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.