Warm air heating equipment merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC

Plymouth, MN · ~113 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Warm air heating equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC: 3.3 TCR = 148% of Warm air heating equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC safety composite

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2022→2024

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC injury rate improved

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC's TCR fell 1.5 from 4.3 in 2022 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.3 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423730 · Plymouth, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.3 · 148% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Schwab Vollhaber Lub…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schwab Vollhaber Lubratt Service Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC averages 3.3 TCR (148% of the Warm air heating equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC TCR series: 2022=4.3 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC falls in its industry

290 Warm air heating equipment mer establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 5 Warm air heating equipment mer employers in Minnesota.

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC (113 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC
Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC (113 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Auer Steel & Heating Supply - TC has more employees than the Warm air heating equipment merchant whol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 2.8 0.9 3 0 0
2023 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2022 4.3 2.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423730 · MN · Plymouth

290 Warm air heating equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 321 employers in Plymouth, 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 Schwab Vollhaber Lubratt Service Corporation 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joe W. Fly Co., Inc. Dallas 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miami-113 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PORTLAND WINAIR CO. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Rochester, MN 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE MPM - Mankato 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Minnesota Construction 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE MN Office 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lawrence Service LLC 3,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR EP SH Plymouth MN 2,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR EP / SH Plymouth MN 1,982 FTE
CITY-NEAR CN Plymouth 1,565 FTE
NAT-TCR David Lundberg Building & Roofing Contractor 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Avient Corporation 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lien Transportation Company 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR PACE 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Health and Human Services 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ehrhardt Tool & Machine 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bedford Department of Social Services 113 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.