Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

True North Equipment Kennedy

Kennedy, MN · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

True North Equipment Kennedy runs at 357% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

True North Equipment Kennedy: 7.8 TCR = 357% of Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

True North Equipment Kennedy safety composite

True North Equipment Kennedy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

True North Equipment Kennedy held a steady TCR band

True North Equipment Kennedy's TCR held near 0.3 from 8.0 in 2023 to 7.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.0 · 2024=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Kennedy, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 357% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #23/40
  • PHOTO S&H Lebanon
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: S&H Lebanon (0.0 TCR gap)

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True North Equipment Kennedy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows True North Equipment Kennedy averages 7.8 TCR (357% of the Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

True North Equipment Kennedy TCR series: 2023=8 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 2.2

Where True North Equipment Kennedy falls in its industry

700 Agricultural machinery and equ establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 40 Agricultural machinery and equ employers in Minnesota.

True North Equipment Kennedy (25 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 True North Equipment Kennedy
True North Equipment Kennedy (25 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

True North Equipment Kennedy has fewer employees than the Agricultural machinery and equipment mer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 7.7 7.7 2 0 0
2023 8.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · MN · Kennedy

700 Agricultural machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Kennedy, 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 S&H Lebanon 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alliance Dairy Service 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SunSouth Montgomery 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Equipment Inc 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Hutchinson, MN 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park Rapids Trucking 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hallock (PFI) 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR TNE - Kennedy 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Intervention - Adams 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Contract Converting LLC 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Redmond 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Mdbur - Burtonsville 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Barrington-Ma11 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE HANOVER-MA12 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Industrial Service, Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1st FP McAllen, LLC 25 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. 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.