Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Minnesota

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal

Lake Crystal, MN · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal safety composite

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−4.5

2022→2024

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal injury rate improved

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal's TCR fell 4.5 from 6.7 in 2022 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.7 · 2023=4.0 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Lake Crystal, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/22
  • PHOTO Valero Renewable Fue…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC (VRF) - Valero Bluffton Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal TCR series: 2022=6.7 · 2023=4 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 22 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Minnesota.

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal (46 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal
POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal (46 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal has fewer employees than the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2023 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2022 6.7 4.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · MN · Lake Crystal

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 13 employers in Lake Crystal, 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 Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC (VRF) - Valero Bluffton Plant 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heron Lake BioEnergy LLC 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iroquois Bio-Energy 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Canby 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elk River Municipal Utilities 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rogers 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE District Energy Saint Paul 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crysteel Mfg Inc. (Truck Bodies & Equipment International, Lake Crystal 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crysteel Mfg Inc (Truck Bodies and Equipment International) 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR TBEI - Lake Crystal 181 FTE
CITY-NEAR (01) LC Location 41 FTE
NAT-TCR Augusta Area Home 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alternative Dental Laboratory 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Litter Distributing Co. Inc. DBA Classic Brands Chillicothe 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SCHOTT North America, Home Tech 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Suwanee Dc 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5114 - AZ ASPC Safford - NaphCare AZ 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Streak Enterprises, LLC dba Prescott Industries 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Health 46 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. 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.