Towing services, motor vehicle · Minnesota

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis

Minneapolis, MN · ~118 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Towing services, motor vehicle workplace, earning a grade F.

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis: 11.3 TCR = 250% of Towing services, motor vehicle BLS 4.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis safety composite

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis: 10.3 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2022

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis's TCR rose 1.3 from 10.3 in 2017 to 11.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Minneapolis, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 250% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO Blaine Brothers, Inc.
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 81 inj
  • SIZE ~118 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blaine Brothers, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis averages 11.3 TCR (250% of the Towing services, motor vehicle BLS benchmark).

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

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis TCR series: 2017=10.3 · 2018=10.5 · 2019=8.6 · 2020=16 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=11.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis falls in its industry

157 Towing services, motor vehicle establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

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 7 Towing services, motor vehicle employers in Minnesota.

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis (118 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis
Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis (118 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Blaine Brothers, Inc. - Minneapolis has more employees than the Towing services, motor vehicle median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 11.6 5.2 18 0 0
2021 10.6 7.0 15 0 0
2020 16.0 7.4 13 0 0
2019 8.6 6.3 11 0 0
2018 10.5 8.1 13 0 0
2017 10.3 7.2 11 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · MN · Minneapolis

157 Towing services, motor vehicle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, 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 Blaine Brothers, Inc. 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brewer's, Inc. 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blaine Brothers, Inc - Scanlon 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WALL STREET TOWING 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Hastings 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rich Products 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northland Dr. 118 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDI-TC 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0027-0026-00493 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0024-0024-03436 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 240323-Athol Po 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 258160-Romeo Po 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Magellan Aerospace, Haverhill, Inc. 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Simsbury 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0017-0016-00002 118 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0017-0016-00118 118 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.