Fossil Fuel Electric Generation · Minnesota

Sherco Gen Plant-LN

Becker, MN · ~264 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sherco Gen Plant-LN runs at 453% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fossil Fuel Electric Generation workplace, earning a grade F.

Sherco Gen Plant-LN: 5.4 TCR = 453% of Fossil Fuel Electric Generation BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sherco Gen Plant-LN safety composite

Sherco Gen Plant-LN scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Sherco Gen Plant-LN: 5.2 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2023

Sherco Gen Plant-LN's TCR rose 0.4 from 5.2 in 2021 to 5.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 5.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221112 · Becker, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 453% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #20/24
  • PHOTO Pawnee Station-888
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~264 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pawnee Station-888 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sherco Gen Plant-LN in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sherco Gen Plant-LN averages 5.4 TCR (453% of the Fossil Fuel Electric Generation BLS benchmark).

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

Sherco Gen Plant-LN TCR series: 2021=5.2 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.5 · BLS 1.2

Where Sherco Gen Plant-LN falls in its industry

846 Fossil Fuel Electric Generatio establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 24 Fossil Fuel Electric Generatio employers in Minnesota.

Sherco Gen Plant-LN (264 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sherco Gen Plant-LN
Sherco Gen Plant-LN (264 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Sherco Gen Plant-LN has more employees than the Fossil Fuel Electric Generation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2023 5.5 3.3 12 3 0
2022 5.5 3.3 12 3 0
2021 5.2 5.2 8 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221112 · MN · Becker

846 Fossil Fuel Electric Generation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 26 employers in Becker, 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 Pawnee Station-888 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden Valley Electric Association, Fairbanks 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trenton Channel Power Point 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pine Belt Service Center 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Comm-Works LLC 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watlow-Winona 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE Boston Scientific Minnetonka 264 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2321 - Rochester South 264 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherco Generating Plant 301 FTE
CITY-NEAR High School 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Becker 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR Liberty Paper 158 FTE
NAT-TCR Holiday Inn Silver Springs 9E- 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Tower Eight Staffing Solutions dba Skilled Resources - Tampa/Fletcher 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100508 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn Palo Alto 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brakebush Mocksville 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE 109 - Ft. Myers 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toray Advanced Composites 264 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit 112 264 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.