Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries · Minnesota

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery

Little Canada, MN · ~50 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade D.

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery safety composite

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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

−7.8

2020→2024

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery injury rate improved

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery's TCR fell 7.8 from 7.8 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.8 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Little Canada, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/23
  • PHOTO North
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North (0.0 TCR gap)

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Taste of Scandinavia Bakery in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Taste of Scandinavia Bakery averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery TCR series: 2020=7.8 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Taste of Scandinavia Bakery falls in its industry

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 23 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., employers in Minnesota.

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery (50 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Taste of Scandinavia Bakery
Taste of Scandinavia Bakery (50 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Taste of Scandinavia Bakery has fewer employees than the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cak median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 9.8 7.4 4 0 0
2022 4.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2020 7.8 5.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · MN · Little Canada

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 35 employers in Little Canada, 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 North 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR KANSAS CITY MO DEPOT 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Venice Bakery - Torrance 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashcraft/European Bakery, L.P. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Meadow Star 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louriston 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Dublin 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edina Service Center-UB 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR Q3 Contracting 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR CN St. Paul 802 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bix Produce 463 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aquarius Water Conditioning, Inc 183 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake County FL Truss 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Creston Quality Inn 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay Bluffs Emmet County Medical Care Facility 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lawrenceburg Fab - AOC Metal Works 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Solana at the Park 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE KSi Conveyors, Inc. - Sabetha 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Littleton 50 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.