Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging · Minnesota

The Scotts Company - Lakeville

Lakeville, MN · ~19 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Scotts Company - Lakeville runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging workplace, earning a grade C.

The Scotts Company - Lakeville: 3.5 TCR = 107% of Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Scotts Company - Lakeville safety composite

The Scotts Company - Lakeville scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

The Scotts Company - Lakeville held a steady TCR band

The Scotts Company - Lakeville's TCR held near 0.2 from 4.7 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325314 · Lakeville, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.5 · 107% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK P45
  • PHOTO Ostara Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ostara Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Scotts Company - Lakeville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Scotts Company - Lakeville averages 3.5 TCR (107% of the Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging BLS benchmark).

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

The Scotts Company - Lakeville TCR series: 2019=4.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.9 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where The Scotts Company - Lakeville falls in its industry

163 Growing Media Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
The Scotts Company - Lakeville (19 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Scotts Company - Lakeville
The Scotts Company - Lakeville (19 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.3

The Scotts Company - Lakeville has fewer employees than the Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 4.5 4.5 1 0 0
2023 4.9 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.7 4.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325314 · MN · Lakeville

163 Growing Media Manufacturing Packaging employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 141 employers in Lakeville, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Ostara Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Scotts Company - Rochester 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaiian Earth Recycling Oahu 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCSC Hatfield Plant 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin Breeding 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Tilney MN 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danvers 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon, MN 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeville Technical Center 645 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schmitty & Sons 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 634 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1484 - Lakeville 414 FTE
NAT-TCR The Building Center Inc - Mebane 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wooster Plant 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cimino Box and Pallet LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Burnie 3.5 TCR

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, 2019. 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.