Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing · Minnesota

521 Owatonna

Owatonna, MN · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

521 Owatonna runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing workplace, earning a grade D.

521 Owatonna: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

521 Owatonna safety composite

521 Owatonna scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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)
D 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

521 Owatonna held a steady TCR band

521 Owatonna's TCR held near 0.2 from 7.0 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=6.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #14/30
  • PHOTO Schmitz Grafton/Port…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schmitz Grafton/Port Washington (0.0 TCR gap)

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521 Owatonna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 521 Owatonna averages 5.3 TCR (161% of the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS benchmark).

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

521 Owatonna TCR series: 2017=7 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where 521 Owatonna falls in its industry

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 30 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi employers in Minnesota.

521 Owatonna (28 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 521 Owatonna
521 Owatonna (28 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

521 Owatonna has fewer employees than the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and dis median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 6.7 6.7 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.5 3.8 2 0 0
2017 7.0 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · MN · Owatonna

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Schmitz Grafton/Port Washington 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewerton Ready Mix Facility, Jamesville Ready Mix Facility, Route 49 West Monroe Facility 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaiian Cement (Cement Division) 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant #1 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shooting Star Native Seeds 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moore Calves 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2528-Glyndon, MN 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worthington Public Utilities 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Rootstown GAMCO 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 827 East 92nd St 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR New Reynolds Electric Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lansing, IL 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 021 New Richmond 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Page Avenue Project 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dakota Mobile Hydraulics 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hv-Open 12/6/10 28 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: 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.