Beet sugar refining · Minnesota

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative

Renville, MN · ~467 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beet sugar refining workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative: 7.2 TCR = 170% of Beet sugar refining BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative safety composite

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−4.0

2022→2024

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative injury rate improved

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative's TCR fell 4.0 from 8.3 in 2022 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.3 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311313 · Renville, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 170% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO SIdney Sugars Incorp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 85 inj
  • SIZE ~467 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SIdney Sugars Incorporated (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative averages 7.2 TCR (170% of the Beet sugar refining BLS benchmark).

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

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative TCR series: 2022=8.3 · 2023=8.9 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 4.2

Where Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative falls in its industry

44 Beet sugar refining establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Beet sugar refining employers in Minnesota.

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative (467 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative
Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative (467 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative has more employees than the Beet sugar refining median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 4.3 3.2 20 0 0
2023 8.9 6.4 31 4 0
2022 8.3 5.8 34 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311313 · MN · Renville

44 Beet sugar refining employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 10 employers in Renville, 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 SIdney Sugars Incorporated 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay City Factory 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blumfield Piling Ground 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE IT Lafayette Road 467 FTE
STATE-SIZE Intermediate School District 917 467 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Hennepin Community College 467 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint Mary's University of Minnesota - Minneapolis 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR RCW K-12 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Transystems LLC - Renville Project 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renville Health Services 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renvilla 69 FTE
NAT-TCR Watershed Distillery 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Forest Construction Company, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Phil Etienne'S Timber Harvest,Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Marquette Mi - 3510 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Leviton Manufacturing Co., InC. 467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rappahannock Electric Cooperative - Entire 467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champion Home Builders, Inc. 467 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moxee Retail Support Center - Ace Hardware 467 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.