Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Minnesota

Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal

Name: Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Lake Crystal, MN · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.8
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal: 7.8 TCR = 238% of Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal safety composite

Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 Lake Crystal: 5.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2020

Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal's TCR rose 4.5 from 5.0 in 2018 to 9.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 238% of ind

DART 9.5 DART
RANK #21/22
PHOTO Pacific Ethanol Inc
BOOK 3y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Ethanol Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Pacific Ethano

7.9
This site

7.8
KAAPA Ethanol

7.8
Yuma Ethanol

7.7
POET Research

7.2

What this shows Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal averages 7.8 TCR (238% of the Ethanol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal TCR series: 2018=5 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=9.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal falls in its industry

228 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 22 Ethanol, nonpotable, manufactu employers in Minnesota.

Poet Biorefining Lake Crystal (40 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Poet Biorefining 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
2020	9.5	9.5	3	1
2019	9.1	9.1	4	0
2018	5.0	5.0	2	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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Pacific Ethanol Inc	BOARDMAN, OR	7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KAAPA Ethanol Ravenna, LLC	RAVENNA, NE	7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Yuma Ethanol	YUMA, CO	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	POET Research Center	SCOTLAND, SD	7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	FDML TW Shop - SE 0010	SLEEPY EYE	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sleepy Eye Feedmill	SLEEPY EYE	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Forsman Farms HL	HOWARD LAKE	40 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Perham Breeders	PERHAM	40 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Crysteel Mfg Inc. (Truck Bodies & Equipment International, Lake Crystal	Lake Crystal	193 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Crysteel Mfg Inc (Truck Bodies and Equipment International)	Lake Crystal	193 FTE
CITY-NEAR	TBEI - Lake Crystal	Lake Crystal	181 FTE
CITY-NEAR	POET Bioprocessing LLC - Lake Crystal	Lake Crystal	46 FTE
NAT-TCR	Rock Rapids care Center	Rock Rapids, IA	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	East Coast Erosion	Bernville, PA	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Construction Austin	Austin, TX	7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gavilon Grain - Hastings, NE	Hastings, NE	7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Ankeny Diner	Ankeny, IA	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Shelby Materials - Beech Grove	Indianapolis, IN	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Aerodyne Alloys	South Windsor, CT	40 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jewett Construction Co., LLC	Raymond, NH	40 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.