Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Minnesota

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake

Bingham Lake, MN · ~42 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake safety composite

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−4757.7

2018→2019

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake injury rate improved

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake's TCR fell 4757.7 from 4761.9 in 2018 to 4.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4761.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4761.9 · 2019=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #11/22
  • PHOTO POET Bioprocessing L…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal (0.0 TCR gap)

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POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake TCR series: 2018=4761.9 · 2019=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin 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 #11 safest of 22 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Minnesota.

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake (42 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Biorefining - Bingham Lake
POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake (42 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake has fewer employees than the Denatured alcohol 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
2019 4.2 2.1 2 0 0
2018 4761.9 4761.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · MN · Bingham Lake

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Bingham Lake, 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 POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining - Groton 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET Biorefining - Shelbyville 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Renewable Fuels Company, LLC (VRF) - Valero Bluffton Plant 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Michael Foods Inc.- GY2 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redwood Falls, MN-PS 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willmar Municipal Utilities 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Benson Power, LLC 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ethanol 2000 LLC dba POET Biorefining - Bingham Lake 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR POET Bioprocessing, LLC 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Country Pride services 40 FTE
NAT-TCR Western Connecticut Home Care 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR RKM Utility Services, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Ridge Public Works 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4192-00051423-TMP 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Walnut Hills Elementary 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schlumberger Technologies 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE ELTA North America 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bark Framework Inc. 42 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.