Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Star Ocean

St. Paul, MN · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Star Ocean runs at 702% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Star Ocean: 15.4 TCR = 702% of Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Star Ocean safety composite

Star Ocean scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

TCR Δ

−20.1

2020→2021

Star Ocean injury rate improved

Star Ocean's TCR fell 20.1 from 25.5 in 2020 to 5.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 25.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=25.5 · 2021=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · St. Paul, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.4 · 702% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #29/29
  • PHOTO NICKLES-GIRARD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NICKLES-GIRARD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Star Ocean in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Star Ocean averages 15.4 TCR (702% of the Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Star Ocean TCR series: 2020=25.5 · 2021=5.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Star Ocean falls in its industry

1,278 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, mil establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 29 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, mil employers in Minnesota.

Star Ocean (48 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Star Ocean
Star Ocean (48 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

Star Ocean has fewer employees than the Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetab median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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 5.4 5.4 1 1 0
2020 25.5 20.4 4 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · MN · St. Paul

1,278 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 370 employers in St. Paul, 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 NICKLES-GIRARD 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CA - Sacramento - 2720 Land Ave - The American Bottling Company 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KEARNY NJ 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berwyn 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waukon 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swenoda 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Region Cooperative - SE Agronomy East/BCA/Shop 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2101-Redwood Falls, MN 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR YCID 5,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific CRM 5,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Hospital 3,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR IT Campus 2,409 FTE
NAT-TCR Kansas City, MO Rail Shop 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Acme Shorey Precast Company Inc. 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZWVC 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hancock Concrete Products- Sioux Falls 15.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Public Safety 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Milwaukee Riverfront 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Connelly Plumbing Co 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE OR2 48 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.