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

Ventura Foods

Albert Lea, MN · ~202 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ventura Foods runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Margarines (including imitation) made from purchased fats and oils workplace, earning a grade C.

Ventura Foods: 3.0 TCR = 89% of Margarines (including imitation) made from purchased fats and oils BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ventura Foods safety composite

Ventura Foods scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−0.7

2023→2024

Ventura Foods injury rate improved

Ventura Foods's TCR fell 0.7 from 3.3 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.3 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 89% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO GenCanna Acquisition…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GenCanna Acquisition Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ventura Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ventura Foods averages 3.0 TCR (89% 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 TCR series: 2023=3.3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Ventura Foods falls in its industry

86 Margarines (including imitatio establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #3 safest of 4 Margarines (including imitatio employers in Minnesota.

Ventura Foods (202 employees, TCR 3.0) 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
Ventura Foods (202 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Ventura Foods has more employees than the Margarines (including imitation) made fr 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
2024 2.6 1.6 5 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 6 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 GenCanna Acquisition Corp 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods - Opelousas 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura Foods, LLC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Erie International Group 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Metal-Matic, LLC Minneapolis Plant 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pequot Tool & Mfg., Inc. 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEAM Industries Audubon 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE ZF North Mankato 202 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 Schier Products 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gum Creek Farms, Inc 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowling Green Branch 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Skirball 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 023 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE InServ 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wells Concrete 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE 094 - Palm Beach Fl 202 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.