Ethyl alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing · Minnesota

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC

Preston, MN · ~42 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ethyl alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Ethyl alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC safety composite

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

−6.6

2019→2024

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC injury rate improved

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC's TCR fell 6.6 from 9.0 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.0 · 2020=7.0 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Preston, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/22
  • PHOTO ICM Biofuels
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ICM Biofuels (0.0 TCR gap)

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POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Ethyl alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC TCR series: 2019=9 · 2020=7 · 2021=2.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC falls in its industry

228 Ethyl alcohol, nonpotable, man establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #10 safest of 22 Ethyl alcohol, nonpotable, man employers in Minnesota.

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC (42 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 - Preston, LLC
POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC (42 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

POET Biorefining - Preston, LLC has fewer employees than the Ethyl alcohol, 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
2024 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 7.0 7.0 3 0 0
2019 9.0 4.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · MN · Preston

228 Ethyl alcohol, nonpotable, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 6 employers in Preston, 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 ICM Biofuels 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining- Hudson 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big River United Energy, LLC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Poet Biorefining Corning 4.0 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 Fillmore Central Elementary 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maple Leaf Services Inc 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fillmore Central Elementary School 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Plant 44 FTE
NAT-TCR Creative Foam - PDC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Flux Power 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ferguson 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Verst Langley 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blanchard Valley Residential Services, Inc - Campus 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1229 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 8018 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cashsaver #22 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.