Painting and wallpapering · Minnesota

Austin's Painting and Decorating

Eden Prairie, MN · ~8 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Austin's Painting and Decorating runs at 630% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade F.

Austin's Painting and Decorating: 17.6 TCR = 630% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Austin's Painting and Decorating safety composite

Austin's Painting and Decorating scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Austin's Painting and Decorating: 4.5 → 30.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 30.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2024

Austin's Painting and Decorating's TCR rose 26.4 from 4.5 in 2022 to 30.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Eden Prairie, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 630% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #15/15
  • PHOTO Allbright Painting
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~8 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allbright Painting (0.5 TCR gap)

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Austin's Painting and Decorating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Austin's Painting and Decorating averages 17.6 TCR (630% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

Austin's Painting and Decorating TCR series: 2022=4.5 · 2024=30.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Austin's Painting and Decorating falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 15 Painting and wallpapering employers in Minnesota.

Austin's Painting and Decorating (8 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Austin's Painting and Decorating
Austin's Painting and Decorating (8 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Austin's Painting and Decorating has fewer employees than the Painting and wallpapering median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 30.8 7.7 3 1 0
2022 4.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · MN · Eden Prairie

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 242 employers in Eden Prairie, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Allbright Painting 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CWPMN, Inc. dba College Works Painting 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tim Payne Painting 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CWPWI, Inc 16.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MSP Minneapolis St Paul 8 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twelfth House 8 FTE
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT HAZELDEN PLYMOUTH 8 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9105 Golden Valley, MN 8 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2573-MN101 1,940 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2573-MN051 1,643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota 1,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fortra, LLC 1,367 FTE
NAT-TCR Starling Steel Services, Inc 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR premier panel company 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomington Vending 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Open Gates Farmers All Natural Creamery 17.6 TCR

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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.