Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Rushford Fertilizer Plant

Rushford, MN · ~19 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rushford Fertilizer Plant runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Rushford Fertilizer Plant: 2.5 TCR = 114% of Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rushford Fertilizer Plant safety composite

Rushford Fertilizer Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Rushford Fertilizer Plant: 0.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 3.86× in 2022

Rushford Fertilizer Plant's TCR rose 9.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 9.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 3.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424910 · Rushford, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 114% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #14/72
  • PHOTO Aurora Cooperative -…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aurora Cooperative - Grant Agronomy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rushford Fertilizer Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rushford Fertilizer Plant averages 2.5 TCR (114% of the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Rushford Fertilizer Plant TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=9.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Rushford Fertilizer Plant falls in its industry

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchan establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 72 Agricultural chemicals merchan employers in Minnesota.

Rushford Fertilizer Plant (19 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rushford Fertilizer Plant
Rushford Fertilizer Plant (19 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Rushford Fertilizer Plant has fewer employees than the Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 9.7 9.7 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424910 · MN · Rushford

1,202 Agricultural chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 8 employers in Rushford, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Aurora Cooperative - Grant Agronomy 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Fairmont 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SiteOne Landscape Supply #172 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SiteOne Landscape Supply #173 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin Breeding 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Tilney MN 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danvers 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon, MN 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR SEMCAC 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Shepherd Lutheran Home 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rushford-Peterson School District 0239 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Rushford 85 FTE
NAT-TCR 2904-ASM-NC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Monroe County Community School Corporation Transportation Center 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 351785-Commack Po 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Foley Bear De 2.5 TCR

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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.