Denatured alcohol manufacturing · Minnesota

POET Biorefining-Glenville

Albert Lea, MN · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

POET Biorefining-Glenville runs at 103% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

POET Biorefining-Glenville: 3.4 TCR = 103% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

POET Biorefining-Glenville safety composite

POET Biorefining-Glenville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

POET Biorefining-Glenville: 2.3 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2022

POET Biorefining-Glenville's TCR rose 2.2 from 2.3 in 2021 to 4.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Albert Lea, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 103% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #7/22
  • PHOTO Poet Biorefining,LLC…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Poet Biorefining,LLC Coon Rapids (0.0 TCR gap)

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POET Biorefining-Glenville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows POET Biorefining-Glenville averages 3.4 TCR (103% 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-Glenville TCR series: 2021=2.3 · 2022=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where POET Biorefining-Glenville falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #7 safest of 22 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in Minnesota.

POET Biorefining-Glenville (41 employees, TCR 3.4) 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-Glenville
POET Biorefining-Glenville (41 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

POET Biorefining-Glenville 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
2022 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · MN · Albert Lea

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 Biorefining,LLC Coon Rapids 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenfield Global 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR KAAPA Ethanol, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dakota Ethanol LLC 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Farming 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Feedmill TW Shop - SE 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hobbs Brigade Energy Services 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wild Rice Electric Cooperative, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lou-Rich Front Street 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Myers Well service Pennsylvania Branch 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Dell Recreations 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SDI LaFarga, LLC. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Supply Chain Center- VEGGA 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG368 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wexford 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Michigan 38660 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Hamden - Library 41 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: 2022, 2021. 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.