Distrubtion · Minnesota

Upper Lakes Foods Inc

Northfield, MN · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Upper Lakes Foods Inc runs at 434% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Distrubtion workplace, earning a grade F.

Upper Lakes Foods Inc: 9.6 TCR = 434% of Distrubtion BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Upper Lakes Foods Inc safety composite

Upper Lakes Foods Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Upper Lakes Foods Inc: 11.6 → 13.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.43× in 2024

Upper Lakes Foods Inc's TCR rose 2.1 from 11.6 in 2019 to 13.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · Northfield, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 434% of ind

  • DART 13.7 DART
  • RANK #24/38
  • PHOTO Greco and Sons of Ar…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greco and Sons of Arizona (0.0 TCR gap)

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Upper Lakes Foods Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Upper Lakes Foods Inc averages 9.6 TCR (434% of the Distrubtion BLS benchmark).

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

Upper Lakes Foods Inc TCR series: 2019=11.6 · 2020=10.9 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=6.1 · 2024=13.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Upper Lakes Foods Inc falls in its industry

1,651 Distrubtion establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 38 Distrubtion employers in Minnesota.

Upper Lakes Foods Inc (39 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Upper Lakes Foods Inc
Upper Lakes Foods Inc (39 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Upper Lakes Foods Inc has fewer employees than the Distrubtion median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2024 13.7 13.7 6 0 0
2022 6.1 6.1 3 0 0
2021 5.5 5.5 2 0 0
2020 10.9 10.9 4 0 0
2019 11.6 11.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · MN · Northfield

1,651 Distrubtion employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 66 employers in Northfield, 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 Greco and Sons of Arizona 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foods Galore Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manassas - RFS 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foodservice Omaha - 0574 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Detroit Lakes Hatchery 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Your Home Improvement Company - St Cloud 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AP Shared Services 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Olaf College 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carleton College 1,598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Mill Northfield MN 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northfield Hospital + Clinics- Campus 620 FTE
NAT-TCR Chautauqua Guest Home #2 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CAS001 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR River City Va 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Curry Rail Services - Hollidaysburg 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE K&M Tire Detroit 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE M&M Weatherization Company 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Todd Transit Inc. 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Witte Co., Inc. 39 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.