Denatured alcohol manufacturing · North Dakota

Tharaldson Ethanol

Casselton, ND · ~55 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tharaldson Ethanol runs at 30% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Denatured alcohol manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Tharaldson Ethanol: 1.0 TCR = 30% of Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tharaldson Ethanol safety composite

Tharaldson Ethanol scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Tharaldson Ethanol: 0.0 → 1.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Tharaldson Ethanol's TCR rose 1.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325193 · Casselton, ND AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 30% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO POET Bioprocessing -…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: POET Bioprocessing -Hudson (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tharaldson Ethanol in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tharaldson Ethanol averages 1.0 TCR (30% of the Denatured alcohol manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Tharaldson Ethanol TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.6 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Tharaldson Ethanol falls in its industry

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturin establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Denatured alcohol manufacturin employers in North Dakota.

Tharaldson Ethanol (55 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tharaldson Ethanol
Tharaldson Ethanol (55 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Tharaldson Ethanol has more employees than the Denatured alcohol manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 1.6 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.7 0.0 0 1 0
2020 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325193 · ND · Casselton

228 Denatured alcohol manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Casselton, ND · 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 POET Bioprocessing -Hudson 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR US Energy Partners LLC, dba White Energy 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big River Resources Boyceville, LLC 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valero Renewables Lakota 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Field Office 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watford Yard Office 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dakota Gasification Company - BSL 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guardian Energy Hankinson 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Casselton 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Casselton Edible Bean 13 FTE
NAT-TCR Handi-Craft Company - Fyler 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Clinton 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1297 STATESBORO, GA 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 043 Energy G&A 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arizona Proving Ground 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Hope City Hall 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amsterdam-Harborview Terr 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veritiv Operating Company - OR003 55 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.