Beet sugar refining · Minnesota

Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative

Renville, MN · ~474 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Beet sugar refining workplace, earning a grade D.

Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative: 7.0 TCR = 167% of Beet sugar refining BLS 4.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative safety composite

Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative: 6.9 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2021

Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative's TCR rose 0.7 from 6.9 in 2017 to 7.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 7.0 · 167% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO SIdney Sugars Incorp…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 146 inj
  • SIZE ~474 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SIdney Sugars Incorporated (0.1 TCR gap)

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Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative averages 7.0 TCR (167% 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 MN Beet Sugar Cooperative TCR series: 2017=6.9 · 2018=8 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=7.6 · BLS 4.2

Where Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative falls in its industry

44 Beet sugar refining establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #8 safest of 9 Beet sugar refining employers in Minnesota.

Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative (474 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 MN Beet Sugar Cooperative
Southern MN Beet Sugar Cooperative (474 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 221 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Southern MN 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
2021 7.6 6.3 32 2 0
2020 7.5 5.9 27 6 0
2019 5.1 3.9 21 1 0
2018 8.0 4.5 35 2 0
2017 6.9 4.1 31 1 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 Southern Minnesota Beet Sugar Cooperative 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Torrington Wyoming Facility 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay City Factory 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Operations - Detroit Lakes, MN 472 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnetonka, MN, USA 472 FTE
STATE-SIZE Suez Water Technologies & Solutions Minntonka 472 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sysco Minnesota 472 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 NMC Group Gering 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepro Enterprises Inc 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Burke Industries (San Jose, CA) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advantage Glass LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clearwater Paper Lewistion CPD 474 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coca Cola Puerto Rico Botllers Bayamon 474 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ii-Vi Inc. 474 FTE
NAT-SIZE InVision Human Services 474 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.