Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Minnesota

Ben's Structural Fabrication

Waite Park, MN · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ben's Structural Fabrication runs at 417% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Ben's Structural Fabrication: 13.8 TCR = 417% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ben's Structural Fabrication safety composite

Ben's Structural Fabrication scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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 13.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.5

2023→2024

Ben's Structural Fabrication injury rate improved

Ben's Structural Fabrication's TCR fell 3.5 from 15.5 in 2023 to 12.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=15.5 · 2024=12.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Waite Park, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 417% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #31/38
  • PHOTO Corrosion Resistant …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corrosion Resistant Reinforcing (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ben's Structural Fabrication in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ben's Structural Fabrication averages 13.8 TCR (417% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ben's Structural Fabrication TCR series: 2023=15.5 · 2024=12 · BLS 3.3

Where Ben's Structural Fabrication falls in its industry

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 38 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Minnesota.

Ben's Structural Fabrication (39 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ben's Structural Fabrication
Ben's Structural Fabrication (39 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Ben's Structural Fabrication has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2024 12.0 6.0 4 0 0
2023 15.5 12.4 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · MN · Waite Park

1,491 Fabricated structural metal manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 82 employers in Waite Park, 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 Corrosion Resistant Reinforcing 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steward Machine Company - Bainbrdge 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Manufacturing Group Inc 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Highway, Becker 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Detroit Lakes Hatchery 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Your Home Improvement Company - St Cloud 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AP Shared Services 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR WACOSA 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bernicks Pepsi & Chas A Bernick of St Cloud 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buttweiler Environmental, Inc. 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buttweiler Environmental, Inc. Corporate Office 247 FTE
NAT-TCR Rock Supremacy LLC 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Logan Square Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Muskingum Iron and Metal 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Home City Ice Company Rockford 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gulfsr-Mchs-11975 Seaway Road Stea230 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Symphony Square 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grovin Construction 39 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. 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.