Grocery stores · Minnesota

Schaefer's Foods

Nisswa, MN · ~74 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schaefer's Foods runs at 216% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Schaefer's Foods: 7.3 TCR = 216% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schaefer's Foods safety composite

Schaefer's Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Schaefer's Foods: 0.0 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 27.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2024

Schaefer's Foods's TCR rose 8.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 27.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Nisswa, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 216% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #246/327
  • PHOTO Food City 069
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Food City 069 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schaefer's Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schaefer's Foods averages 7.3 TCR (216% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Schaefer's Foods TCR series: 2018=0 · 2020=2.4 · 2021=27.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Schaefer's Foods falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #246 safest of 327 Grocery stores employers in Minnesota.

Schaefer's Foods (74 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Schaefer's Foods
Schaefer's Foods (74 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Schaefer's Foods has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 8.8 8.8 3 1 0
2023 5.5 5.5 1 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 27.4 2.3 12 0 0
2020 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · Nisswa

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 6 employers in Nisswa, 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 Food City 069 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6903-69030001-17 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2050-20500002-390 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY 0025 2856 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE City of Winthrop 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morgan Memorial Foundation., dba Gil-Mor Manor and Gil-Mor Haven 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edina Specialty Surgery Center 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Home Insulation 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR ETOC Company, Inc. 525 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Nisswa 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welcome Home Management Hills Crossing 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Welcome Home Management - Hills Crossing 25 FTE
NAT-TCR B&B Specialties, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ColorCoat Inc. Milton, PA 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Des Plaines IL FXFE-DPL 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Soldiers Home 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pentagon EMS 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neodesha Plastics, Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Salt Lake 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE C052 Black Satchel 74 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, 2018. 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.