Hardware Manufacturing · Minnesota

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant

Rochester, MN · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hardware Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Hardware Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant safety composite

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant: 6.3 → 17.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.25× in 2024

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant's TCR rose 11.0 from 6.3 in 2016 to 17.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Rochester, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO POMPANETTE, LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: POMPANETTE, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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4007 - Rochester Nail Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 4007 - Rochester Nail Plant averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Hardware Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant TCR series: 2016=6.3 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.2 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=17.3 · BLS 3.3

Where 4007 - Rochester Nail Plant falls in its industry

189 Hardware Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Hardware Manufacturing employers in Minnesota.

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant (32 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 4007 - Rochester Nail Plant
4007 - Rochester Nail Plant (32 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

4007 - Rochester Nail Plant has fewer employees than the Hardware Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 17.3 10.4 5 0 0
2023 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2021 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 6.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · MN · Rochester

189 Hardware Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, 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 POMPANETTE, LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HOPPE - Fort Atkinson 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR FLEXCO ENGINEERED SYSTEMS GROUP LLC 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Master Lock Company 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE MN Farm 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz SE Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Bridge Combined Cycle 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steele Waseca Coop Electric 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR Bradley Il - 3093 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas Fastener, Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Forest Grove Light & Power 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Chicago Meat 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4202 - Plano Truss Plant 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4378 - Jeffersonville Concrete Plant 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eau Claire Pallet Rack - 1008 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boxout, LLC Jacksonville 32 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, 2016. 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.