Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · South Dakota

Poet Biorefining- Hudson

Hudson, SD · ~43 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Poet Biorefining- Hudson runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Poet Biorefining- Hudson: 3.8 TCR = 116% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Poet Biorefining- Hudson safety composite

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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

Poet Biorefining- Hudson held a steady TCR band

Poet Biorefining- Hudson's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.2 in 2019 to 2.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=2.2 · 2020=7.0 · 2021=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 116% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #10/23
  • PHOTO ICM Biofuels
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ICM Biofuels (0.0 TCR gap)

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Poet Biorefining- Hudson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Poet Biorefining- Hudson averages 3.8 TCR (116% 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- Hudson TCR series: 2019=2.2 · 2020=7 · 2021=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Poet Biorefining- Hudson falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #10 safest of 23 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in South Dakota.

Poet Biorefining- Hudson (43 employees, TCR 3.8) 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- Hudson
Poet Biorefining- Hudson (43 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Poet Biorefining- Hudson 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
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2020 7.0 4.7 3 0 0
2019 2.2 2.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · SD · Hudson

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,778 rated employers in South Dakota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Hudson, 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 ICM Biofuels 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big River United Energy, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland corn Products 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hoogendoorn Construction, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE House of Glass, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 3 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ringneck Energy, LLC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sioux River Ethanol LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR POET Bioprocessing -Hudson 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hudson Care and Rehab Center 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10135) 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AH4R - Indy 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AH4R - Utah 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Forest Products- Chandler LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE S09555 - WM Recycling Pompano 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weather Shield Mfg Inc.----Transportation 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scottdale Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Proform Group Inc OHIO 43 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.