Other Direct Selling Establishments · Minnesota

Tastefully Simple

Alexandria,, MN · ~109 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tastefully Simple runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Other Direct Selling Establishments workplace, earning a grade A.

Tastefully Simple: 0.9 TCR = 26% of Other Direct Selling Establishments BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tastefully Simple safety composite

Tastefully Simple scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−0.6

2016→2023

Tastefully Simple injury rate improved

Tastefully Simple's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.1 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.1 · 2017=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2023=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454390 · Alexandria,, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 26% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #1/16
  • PHOTO Clean Water Center
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clean Water Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tastefully Simple in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tastefully Simple averages 0.9 TCR (26% of the Other Direct Selling Establishments BLS benchmark).

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

Tastefully Simple TCR series: 2016=2.1 · 2017=0 · 2021=0 · 2023=1.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Tastefully Simple falls in its industry

212 Other Direct Selling Establish establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 16 Other Direct Selling Establish employers in Minnesota.

Tastefully Simple (109 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Tastefully Simple
Tastefully Simple (109 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Tastefully Simple has more employees than the Other Direct Selling Establishments median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.1 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454390 · MN · Alexandria,

212 Other Direct Selling Establishments employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 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 Clean Water Center 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pure Romance, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NOR AM - KANSAS CITY MO - CB 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rochester Sand & Gravel 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mathiowetz Construction Company 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE BendTec,LLC 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dick Family, Inc. dba C & L Distributing Sauk Rapids 109 FTE
NAT-TCR Baer Field Svc Ctr 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bluefield VA Trs Svc Bldg 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Hard Fire Suppression Systems, Inc. 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 148 West 125th Street 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercer Island/164 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Muncie Svc Ctr 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Julia Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leisure Care Village at Unity 109 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, 2021, 2017, 2016. 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.