Carpentry, framing · Minnesota

Braxton and sons

Hopkins, MN · ~211 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Braxton and sons runs at 876% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Carpentry, framing workplace, earning a grade F.

Braxton and sons: 24.5 TCR = 876% of Carpentry, framing BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Braxton and sons safety composite

Braxton and sons scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Braxton and sons held a steady TCR band

Braxton and sons's TCR held near 0.3 from 23.1 in 2018 to 23.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 27.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=23.1 · 2019=27.0 · 2023=23.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238130 · Hopkins, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 24.5 · 876% of ind

  • DART 19.6 DART
  • RANK #10/11
  • PHOTO Sontag Construction,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 137 inj
  • SIZE ~211 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sontag Construction, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Braxton and sons in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Braxton and sons averages 24.5 TCR (876% of the Carpentry, framing BLS benchmark).

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

Braxton and sons TCR series: 2018=23.1 · 2019=27 · 2023=23.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Braxton and sons falls in its industry

387 Carpentry, framing establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 11 Carpentry, framing employers in Minnesota.

Braxton and sons (211 employees, TCR 24.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Braxton and sons
Braxton and sons (211 employees, TCR 24.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Braxton and sons has more employees than the Carpentry, framing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2023 23.4 19.6 43 0 0
2019 27.0 17.7 55 0 0
2018 23.1 16.6 39 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238130 · MN · Hopkins

387 Carpentry, framing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 59 employers in Hopkins, 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 Sontag Construction, Inc. 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Framing Specialists, Inc 24.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Juzt Construction Inc. 23.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TORRES GENERAL INC 23.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mikros Engineering 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ultra Machining Company, Inc. 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Street 211 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walser Automotive Group Corporate Office 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9320 Excelsior Crossings 1,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUPERVALU DISTRIBUTION CENTER - MINNEAPOLIS 31511 902 FTE
CITY-NEAR Opportunity Partners - Koch Campus 897 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Blake School - Blake Campus 379 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Rockville Refuse and Recycling 24.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 056933-Sna-South Main Sta 24.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Station 4 24.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Duco-Lam 24.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100644 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faith Hospice 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Concrete Products, Inc. 211 FTE
NAT-SIZE McWane Ductile New Jersey 211 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: 2023, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.