Potato Farming · Minnesota

Wadena

Wadena, MN · ~80 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wadena runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Potato Farming workplace, earning a grade D.

Wadena: 7.2 TCR = 159% of Potato Farming BLS 4.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wadena safety composite

Wadena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

Wadena: 0.0 → 13.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.89× in 2024

Wadena's TCR rose 13.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 13.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 111211 · Wadena, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.2 · 159% of ind

  • DART 13.5 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Brooten
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brooten (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wadena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wadena averages 7.2 TCR (159% of the Potato Farming BLS benchmark).

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

Wadena TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=5.8 · 2021=9.9 · 2022=5.4 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=13.5 · BLS 4.5

Where Wadena falls in its industry

153 Potato Farming establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

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 5 Potato Farming employers in Minnesota.

Wadena (80 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wadena
Wadena (80 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Wadena has more employees than the Potato Farming median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 13.5 13.5 9 0 0
2023 8.2 8.2 8 0 0
2022 5.4 4.3 5 0 0
2021 9.9 9.9 7 0 0
2020 5.8 3.5 5 0 0
2019 5.6 5.6 2 0 0
2018 8.8 8.8 10 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

111211 · MN · Wadena

153 Potato Farming employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 34 employers in Wadena, 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 Brooten 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR L.J. OLSEN, INC. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greenridge Farming Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4Seasons Farms, LLC 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wysan Precast 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enclos Corp. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeville 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sorensen Painting 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4246 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4246 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elementary 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homecrest Outdoor Living 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Rouses Market #58 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Skarlupka Manufacturing Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Electrical Associates 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntsville 036 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town of Waterford Community Center 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Concord Health 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yankee Hill Village 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacifc International Marketing 80 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.