Welding equipment manufacturing · Minnesota

Bauer Welding & Metal Fab

St. Paul, MN · ~79 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bauer Welding & Metal Fab runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Welding equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Bauer Welding & Metal Fab: 5.3 TCR = 161% of Welding equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bauer Welding & Metal Fab safety composite

Bauer Welding & Metal Fab scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Bauer Welding & Metal Fab: 4.6 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2022

Bauer Welding & Metal Fab's TCR rose 2.9 from 4.6 in 2019 to 7.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333992 · St. Paul, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 161% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK P16
  • PHOTO Voestalpine Bohler w…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Voestalpine Bohler welding USA Technology (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bauer Welding & Metal Fab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bauer Welding & Metal Fab averages 5.3 TCR (161% of the Welding equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bauer Welding & Metal Fab TCR series: 2019=4.6 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Bauer Welding & Metal Fab falls in its industry

129 Welding equipment manufacturin establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Bauer Welding & Metal Fab (79 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Bauer Welding & Metal Fab
Bauer Welding & Metal Fab (79 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Bauer Welding & Metal Fab has more employees than the Welding equipment manufacturing 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
2022 7.5 7.5 6 0 0
2021 3.9 3.9 3 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 4 0 0
2019 4.6 3.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333992 · MN · St. Paul

129 Welding equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 370 employers in St. Paul, 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 Voestalpine Bohler welding USA Technology 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Purity- Grand Rapids 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bernard Welding 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luvata Ohio 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elcor Construction 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALLSTATES PAVEMENT RECYCLING & STABILIZATION, INC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sir Lines A-Lot 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE USI (Hastings, MN) 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR YCID 5,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific CRM 5,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Hospital 3,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR IT Campus 2,409 FTE
NAT-TCR LTR Products, LLC 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Amuneal Manufacturing Corp - Torresdale 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0017-0017-01980 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0017-0017-02097 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gelson's Markets #24 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE FL - Legal Address 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0019-0018-00596 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0017-0016-04024 79 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, 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.