Employer · Minnesota

1043 - Owatonna

Name: 1043 - Owatonna Workplace Safety Data
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Owatonna, MN · ~80 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

1043 - Owatonna runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

1043 - Owatonna: 2.8 TCR = 81% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1043 - Owatonna safety composite

1043 - Owatonna scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Rising injury rate

1043 - Owatonna: 2.7 → 4.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

1043 - Owatonna's TCR rose 1.3 from 2.7 in 2016 to 4.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Owatonna, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.8 · 81% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #31/73
PHOTO Orland Square
BOOK 6y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Orland Square (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
Orland Square

2.8
71173

2.8
71517

2.8
382 - West Pat

2.8

What this shows 1043 - Owatonna averages 2.8 TCR (81% of the industry BLS benchmark).

1043 - Owatonna TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=3 · 2020=6.8 · 2022=4 · BLS 3.4

Where 1043 - Owatonna falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 73 industry employers in Minnesota.

1043 - Owatonna (80 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

1043 - Owatonna has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022	4.0	0.0	1
2020	6.8	0.0	2
2019	3.0	0.0	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0
2016	2.7	2.7	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · MN · Owatonna

2,917 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Orland Square	ORLAND PARK, IL	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	71173	YONKERS, NY	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	71517	REDONDO BEACH, CA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	382 - West Paterson	WOODLAND PARK, NJ	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Wadena	WADENA	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wysan Precast	HAWLEY	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Enclos Corp.	EAGAN	80 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lakeville	LAKEVILL	80 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Downtown & Remote	Owatonna	1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR	27-321862189	Owatonna	1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Viracon	Owatonna	1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Truth Hardware	Owatonna	631 FTE
NAT-TCR	686 - Corpus Christi	Corpus Christi, TX	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	476 - Howell-NJ	Howell, NJ	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	382 - West Paterson	Woodland Park, NJ	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Techniplas US LLC	Jonesville, MI	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	1027 - Florence-AL	Florence, AL	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1007 - St. George	Washington, UT	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1087 - Defiance	Defiance, OH	80 FTE
NAT-SIZE	1091 - Cartersville	Cartersville, GA	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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.