Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · South Dakota

Poet Biorefining- Chancellor

Chancellor, SD · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Poet Biorefining- Chancellor runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Poet Biorefining- Chancellor: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Poet Biorefining- Chancellor safety composite

Poet Biorefining- Chancellor scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

−3.8

2018→2020

Poet Biorefining- Chancellor injury rate improved

Poet Biorefining- Chancellor's TCR fell 3.8 from 9.7 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=9.7 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Chancellor, SD ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #20/23
  • PHOTO Green Plains Superio…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Green Plains Superior LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Poet Biorefining- Chancellor in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Poet Biorefining- Chancellor averages 6.1 TCR (185% 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 Biorefining- Chancellor TCR series: 2018=9.7 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Poet Biorefining- Chancellor falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to South Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 23 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in South Dakota.

Poet Biorefining- Chancellor (67 employees, TCR 6.1) 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- Chancellor
Poet Biorefining- Chancellor (67 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Poet Biorefining- Chancellor has more 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
2020 5.9 5.9 3 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2018 9.7 9.7 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · SD · Chancellor

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Chancellor, SD · 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 Green Plains Superior LLC 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet- Coon Rapids 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quad County Corn Processors 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guardian Energy Hankinson 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lee Earley, Inc dba LEi 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4080 - Dakota Panel Plant 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4083 - Dakota Panel Pick & Assembly 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Plains Ethanol. LLC d.b.a Poet Biorefining- Chancellor 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR POET Bioprocessing- Chancellor 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR Poet Bioprocessing-Chancellor 58 FTE
NAT-TCR Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc - Canton Ronda 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Noblesville 02 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0231 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Webb Concrete & Building Materials, Inc. Centre 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schilling Supply Company 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veazey Enterprises, Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orono Commons 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterford Public Schools - Quaker Hill School 67 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: 2020, 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.