Margarines (including imitation) made from purchased fats and oils · Minnesota

Ventura Foods Albert Lea

Albert Lea, MN · ~198 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ventura Foods Albert Lea runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Margarines (including imitation) made from purchased fats and oils workplace, earning a grade A.

Ventura Foods Albert Lea: 1.5 TCR = 46% of Margarines (including imitation) made from purchased fats and oils BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ventura Foods Albert Lea safety composite

Ventura Foods Albert Lea scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

−1.0

2020→2022

Ventura Foods Albert Lea injury rate improved

Ventura Foods Albert Lea's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.0 in 2020 to 1.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 2.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.0 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311225 · Albert Lea, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.5 · 46% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Sovena USA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~198 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sovena USA (0.0 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 1.5 TCR (46% of the Margarines (including imitation) 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: 2020=2 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1 · BLS 3.3

Where Ventura Foods Albert Lea falls in its industry

86 Margarines (including imitatio establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #2 safest of 4 Margarines (including imitatio employers in Minnesota.

Ventura Foods Albert Lea (198 employees, TCR 1.5) 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 1.5) 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 Margarines (including imitation) made fr median and a lower 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
2022 1.0 1.0 2 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 3 0 0
2020 2.0 1.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311225 · MN · Albert Lea

86 Margarines (including imitation) 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 Sovena USA 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR B&G Foods North America Inc., Crisco Plant 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain - Charlotte 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilmar Oils & Fats, Stockton LLC 1.6 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 Hydranautics 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Machine & Welding of Danbury Walnut Cove 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Steger Const Inc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ginn Group LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Senior Star at Elmore Place 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acument Global Technologies 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100003 198 FTE
NAT-SIZE Modern Wholesale 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.