Sugar Beet Farming
Industry Summary
Between 2014 and 2015, the Sugar Beet Farming industry saw employment growth of only 2.91%. There are an average of 6 workers at each of the 328 establishments in the United States. With OSHA reported accident rates of less than that of the the All Other Crop Farming Industry as a whole, things have been relatively safe over the past five years.
OSHA investigators arrived in Stephen, MN on Tuesday, November 5th 2013 and began an accident investigation at John Betsy & Brian Jensen Dba Jensen Farms Ptnshp. A employee had been injured when the worker run over while servicing a piece of farm equipment
OSHA IDSevere Injury Report
Accident Date2013-11-01
Accident DegreeInjury
NarrativeOn November 1, 2013, Employee #1, with John Betsy & Brian Jensen Dba Jensen Farms Partnership, was working on a piece of farm equipment. The farm equipment was hooked onto a tractor, when another worker got into the tractor and started to move it, Employee #1 was run over by the wheels of the farm equipment. Because the Employer was a farm with fewer than ten were exempt from MNOSHA jurisdiction. The case was not further investigated and was closed due to lack of OSHA coverage.
OSHA Inspection Activity
Accident Rate
5 Year Average
9.16
Last 12 Months
0
Reporting Statistics
Inspection Records: 4
Violation Records:
Accident Records: 1