423720 Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Hydronics Merchant Wholesalers · Minnesota

6 - Brainerd

Brainerd, MN · ~22 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

6 - Brainerd runs at 442% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 423720 Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Hydronics Merchant Wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

6 - Brainerd: 9.7 TCR = 442% of 423720 Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Hydronics Merchant Wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6 - Brainerd safety composite

6 - Brainerd scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

6 - Brainerd: 5.1 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

6 - Brainerd's TCR rose 5.0 from 5.1 in 2021 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423720 · Brainerd, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 442% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #20/20
  • PHOTO Hurricane office
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hurricane office (0.0 TCR gap)

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6 - Brainerd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6 - Brainerd averages 9.7 TCR (442% of the 423720 Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Hydronics Merchant Wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

6 - Brainerd TCR series: 2021=5.1 · 2023=14 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 2.2

Where 6 - Brainerd falls in its industry

853 423720 Plumbing and Heating Eq establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 20 423720 Plumbing and Heating Eq employers in Minnesota.

6 - Brainerd (22 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 6 - Brainerd
6 - Brainerd (22 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 3.3

6 - Brainerd has fewer employees than the 423720 Plumbing and Heating Equipment an median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 10.1 10.1 2 0 0
2023 14.0 14.0 2 0 0
2021 5.1 5.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423720 · MN · Brainerd

853 423720 Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Hydronics Merchant Wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Brainerd, 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 Hurricane office 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branch 20 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Fireplace Supply - Colorado Springs 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hajoca 740 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunrise Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerald Spring Dairy, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Greenstreak Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dassel 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Josephs Medical Center 1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crow Wing County 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madden's on Gull Lake 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Lakes Colloege - Brainerd and Staples Campuses 258 FTE
NAT-TCR Policia Municipal 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Health Care Center 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Swick Cable Contractor's Inc. 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Champion Window of Denver 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bluefield,WV 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Danville 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richmond Terminal 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 6717 - 159th 80th 22 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.