Buildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing · Minnesota

American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses)

Montevideo, MN · ~159 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Buildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses): 7.8 TCR = 238% of Buildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) safety composite

American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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 7.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses): 9.2 → 17.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.64× in 2022

American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses)'s TCR rose 8.0 from 9.2 in 2018 to 17.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321992 · Montevideo, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 238% of ind

  • DART 12.9 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Harvest Homes Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Harvest Homes Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) averages 7.8 TCR (238% of the Buildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) TCR series: 2018=9.2 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=0.6 · 2022=17.1 · BLS 3.3

Where American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) falls in its industry

177 Buildings, prefabricated, wood establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 9 Buildings, prefabricated, wood employers in Minnesota.

American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) (159 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 7.7 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 050100150200 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses)
American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) (159 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 7.7

American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) has more employees than the Buildings, prefabricated, wood, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.7. 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
2022 17.1 12.9 7 1 0
2020 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2019 4.5 3.0 9 0 0
2018 9.2 0.6 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321992 · MN · Montevideo

177 Buildings, prefabricated, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 35 employers in Montevideo, 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 Harvest Homes Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ice Castle Fish Houses 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Entekra LLC-Modesto 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blueprint-Robotics 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elk River Campus 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis SE Storage-TJ 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rich Products Fridley 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delta Industrial Services, Inc. 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montevideo Plant 329 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1858 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1858 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR PLANT 9 170 FTE
NAT-TCR HG796 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-ALBIR4 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-TNNAS16 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 240102-Cam-Central Square Mpo 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03230 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-01074 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03486 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-SWY-0017-0017-01849 159 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.