Direct mail advertising services · Minnesota

American Spirit Mail Solutions

Howard Lake, MN · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Spirit Mail Solutions runs at 950% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Direct mail advertising services workplace, earning a grade F.

American Spirit Mail Solutions: 4.8 TCR = 950% of Direct mail advertising services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Spirit Mail Solutions safety composite

American Spirit Mail Solutions 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.26 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

American Spirit Mail Solutions: 0.0 → 14.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 3× in 2021

American Spirit Mail Solutions's TCR rose 14.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 14.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541860 · Howard Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 950% of ind

  • DART 14.3 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Impressions Direct
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Impressions Direct (0.1 TCR gap)

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American Spirit Mail Solutions in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Spirit Mail Solutions averages 4.8 TCR (950% of the Direct mail advertising services BLS benchmark).

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

American Spirit Mail Solutions TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=14.3 · BLS 0.5

Where American Spirit Mail Solutions falls in its industry

64 Direct mail advertising servic establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

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 7 Direct mail advertising servic employers in Minnesota.

American Spirit Mail Solutions (23 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate American Spirit Mail Solutions
American Spirit Mail Solutions (23 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 107 employees and a TCR of 3.6

American Spirit Mail Solutions has fewer employees than the Direct mail advertising services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2021 14.3 14.3 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541860 · MN · Howard Lake

64 Direct mail advertising services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 13 employers in Howard Lake, 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 Impressions Direct 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valassis 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valassis 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UMS Wausau 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brooten 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Alpha Foods, LLP 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNHT-SEL-HIGHWAY 12' 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fergus Falls CSC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dura Supreme 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forsman Farms 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Lake Branch 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society - Howard Lake 58 FTE
NAT-TCR Rice, TX 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Discount Dumpsters LLC dba Western Elite 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruan Transport Corporation T-305 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CHC 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4186-TR07 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enterprise Midway 15MD 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 140 Riverside Boulevard 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE RidgeView Assisted Living Burlington 23 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.