Automotive engine repair and replacement shops · Minnesota

Blaine Brothers

Blaine, MN · ~96 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.3
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blaine Brothers runs at 729% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automotive engine repair and replacement shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Blaine Brothers: 15.3 TCR = 729% of Automotive engine repair and replacement shops BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blaine Brothers safety composite

Blaine Brothers scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Blaine Brothers: 14.0 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2024

Blaine Brothers's TCR rose 2.6 from 14.0 in 2023 to 16.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811111 · Blaine, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.3 · 729% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #53/53
  • PHOTO Thurston Spring Serv…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thurston Spring Service Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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Blaine Brothers in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blaine Brothers averages 15.3 TCR (729% of the Automotive engine repair and replacement shops BLS benchmark).

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

Blaine Brothers TCR series: 2023=14 · 2024=16.6 · BLS 2.1

Where Blaine Brothers falls in its industry

609 Automotive engine repair and r establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #53 safest of 53 Automotive engine repair and r employers in Minnesota.

Blaine Brothers (96 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Blaine Brothers
Blaine Brothers (96 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Blaine Brothers has more employees than the Automotive engine repair and replacement median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 16.6 11.1 16 2 0
2023 14.0 6.1 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811111 · MN · Blaine

609 Automotive engine repair and replacement shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 163 employers in Blaine, 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 Thurston Spring Service Inc 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TERRE HAUTE FLEET - 1702 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6721 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ATG Lancaster 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE CenterPoint Energy - South 501 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Lake Superior Sanitary District 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Associated Milk Producers Inc (Rochester Cheese Mfg) 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Domino's Supply Chain Center- Minnesota 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Estee Lauder - Blaine 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR Infinite Campus, Inc. 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1832 - Blaine 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3498 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Montana Coffee Traders Inc 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 307 Logistics 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Moran Iron Works, Inc 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Iron Works 15.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Scotts Company - Riverside 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE JLS Automation 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Offsite Manufacturing 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plymouth Meeting 96 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.