Wholesale Building Products · Minnesota

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin

Aitkin, MN · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Wholesale Building Products workplace, earning a grade D.

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin: 3.9 TCR = 133% of Wholesale Building Products BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin safety composite

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−0.7

2019→2020

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin injury rate improved

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin's TCR fell 0.7 from 4.2 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.2 · 2020=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Aitkin, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 133% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #74/130
  • PHOTO Verst Langley
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Verst Langley (0.0 TCR gap)

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BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin averages 3.9 TCR (133% of the Wholesale Building Products BLS benchmark).

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

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin TCR series: 2019=4.2 · 2020=3.5 · BLS 2.9

Where BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin falls in its industry

4,692 Wholesale Building Products establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #74 safest of 130 Wholesale Building Products employers in Minnesota.

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin (62 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin
BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin (62 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin has more employees than the Wholesale Building Products median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2020 3.5 1.8 2 0 0
2019 4.2 4.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · MN · Aitkin

4,692 Wholesale Building Products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 26 employers in Aitkin, 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 Verst Langley 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5597_12378 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GLY Construction, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pipestone System Services 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sports Group 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nor-Son Construction 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE TerWisscha Construction, Inc 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverwood Hospital 373 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverwood Healthcare Center - Hospital 317 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aitkin County 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aitkin High School 115 FTE
NAT-TCR Chief Specialty Packaging 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1892 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 785 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1068 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE TXLUBB-OPI-LUBBOCK 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE US027: Little Rock 270 - SG 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tmx2728 - San Diego 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tmx2610 - Mobile - North 62 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.