Shortening made from purchased fats and oils · Minnesota

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea

Albert Lea, MN · ~198 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Shortening made from purchased fats and oils workplace, earning a grade D.

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea: 6.2 TCR = 187% of Shortening made from purchased fats and oils BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea safety composite

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.6

2017→2019

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea injury rate improved

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea's TCR fell 9.6 from 10.9 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.9 · 2019=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311225 · Albert Lea, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Full-Fill Industries…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Full-Fill Industries LLC (0.3 TCR gap)

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Ventura Foods - Albert Lea in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ventura Foods - Albert Lea averages 6.2 TCR (187% of the Shortening made from purchased fats and oils BLS benchmark).

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

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea TCR series: 2017=10.9 · 2019=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Ventura Foods - Albert Lea falls in its industry

86 Shortening made from purchased establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Shortening made from purchased employers in Minnesota.

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea (198 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ventura Foods - Albert Lea
Ventura Foods - Albert Lea (198 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ventura Foods - Albert Lea has more employees than the Shortening made from purchased fats and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2019 1.4 0.0 3 0 0
2017 10.9 10.0 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311225 · MN · Albert Lea

86 Shortening made from purchased fats and oils employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 Full-Fill Industries LLC 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kagome Inc 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Chicago Packing LLC 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanimax USA, LLC - DeForest 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ventura Foods Albert Lea 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Impressions Inc 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Precision Associates, Inc. 198 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daikin Applied 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lou-Rich Front Street 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Martin Wine Cellar (Uptown) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 132 - Fond du Lac 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2431 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 1674 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE PERMA-FIX ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. Corporate 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-WIMIL29 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 12645 Stone Ave N 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE 20 - Orange Avenue 198 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: 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.