Welding, on site, contractors · Minnesota

A&B Welding & Construction Inc.

Nowthen, MN · ~51 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

A&B Welding & Construction Inc. runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Welding, on site, contractors workplace, earning a grade B.

A&B Welding & Construction Inc.: 1.5 TCR = 53% of Welding, on site, contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

A&B Welding & Construction Inc. safety composite

A&B Welding & Construction Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

A&B Welding & Construction Inc.: 0.0 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.81× in 2024

A&B Welding & Construction Inc.'s TCR rose 4.2 from 0.0 in 2020 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238190 · Nowthen, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.5 · 53% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO Matcor Inc. - MIdland
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Matcor Inc. - MIdland (0.0 TCR gap)

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A&B Welding & Construction Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows A&B Welding & Construction Inc. averages 1.5 TCR (53% of the Welding, on site, contractors BLS benchmark).

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

A&B Welding & Construction Inc. TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=1.8 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 2.8

Where A&B Welding & Construction Inc. falls in its industry

166 Welding, on site, contractors establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Welding, on site, contractors employers in Minnesota.

A&B Welding & Construction Inc. (51 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate A&B Welding & Construction Inc.
A&B Welding & Construction Inc. (51 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 3.5

A&B Welding & Construction Inc. has fewer employees than the Welding, on site, contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 4.2 4.2 2 0 0
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238190 · MN · Nowthen

166 Welding, on site, contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Nowthen, 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 Matcor Inc. - MIdland 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wachs Services Belmont 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lonestar Forming, Inc. - Mableton, GA 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WBI Energy Corrosion Services Billings Operations 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Union Dairy LLP 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE ON 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wes Hanson Builders 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis Office 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Valley, Inc. 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR TR Concrete, Inc. 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR BILLS SUPERETTE #11 22 FTE
NAT-TCR Pratt Paper (LA), LLC 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LaGrou Rana 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 00457 Grape Street Ofc 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Meridian Bioscience Inc - Life Science 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville Machine Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tabco Incorporated 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE S&O, LLC > Parrot Cove 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denver Last Mile Logistics, LLC 51 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. 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.