Grocery stores · Minnesota

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside

Duluth, MN · ~98 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside: 8.0 TCR = 235% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside safety composite

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−11.9

2020→2024

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside injury rate improved

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside's TCR fell 11.9 from 19.3 in 2020 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=19.3 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=6.0 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 235% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #259/327
  • PHOTO Piggly Wiggly 194
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Piggly Wiggly 194 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whole Foods Co-op Hillside in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whole Foods Co-op Hillside averages 8.0 TCR (235% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside TCR series: 2020=19.3 · 2021=2.8 · 2022=6 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Whole Foods Co-op Hillside falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #259 safest of 327 Grocery stores employers in Minnesota.

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside (98 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Whole Foods Co-op Hillside
Whole Foods Co-op Hillside (98 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Whole Foods Co-op Hillside has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 7.4 3.0 5 0 0
2023 4.4 2.9 3 0 0
2022 6.0 3.0 4 0 0
2021 2.8 1.4 2 0 0
2020 19.3 6.4 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · MN · Duluth

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 340 employers in Duluth, 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 Piggly Wiggly 194 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piggly Wiggly 160 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LMMM Houston #37, LTD 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0027-0027-01630 FAC-01630-ELLENSBURG-WA 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Revol Greens MN, LLC 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greystone Construction 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Building Restoration Corporaion - Minneapolis 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-Tex Electric, Inc. 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Duluth 1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR 2844 - Huntington 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2095 - Owasso 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Doubletree By Hilton Sacramento 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SAF Atlanta 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Appleton Corporation 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gainesville Dc 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2343 - Montrose 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. Crompton Electric, Inc. 98 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. 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.