Painting and wallpapering · Minnesota

Brush Masters Inc

Maple Grove, MN · ~92 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brush Masters Inc runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade F.

Brush Masters Inc: 9.6 TCR = 341% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brush Masters Inc safety composite

Brush Masters Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Brush Masters Inc: 5.4 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Brush Masters Inc's TCR rose 4.2 from 5.4 in 2017 to 9.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Maple Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 341% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO Unforgettable Coatin…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unforgettable Coatings of Utah, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brush Masters Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brush Masters Inc averages 9.6 TCR (341% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

Brush Masters Inc TCR series: 2017=5.4 · 2018=10.3 · 2019=14.4 · 2020=8.1 · 2023=9.6 · 2024=9.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Brush Masters Inc falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Painting and wallpapering employers in Minnesota.

Brush Masters Inc (92 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Brush Masters Inc
Brush Masters Inc (92 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Brush Masters Inc has more employees than the Painting and wallpapering median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 9.6 0.0 5 0 0
2023 9.6 1.6 6 0 0
2020 8.1 0.0 7 0 0
2019 14.4 7.9 11 0 0
2018 10.3 5.2 10 0 0
2017 5.4 2.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · MN · Maple Grove

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 238 employers in Maple Grove, 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 Unforgettable Coatings of Utah, Inc. 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 7324_16843 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wasatch Mountain Painting 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armadillo Painting LLC 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake States Lumber LLC Aitkin 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Michels Power Inc-MN-Ostego 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bituminous Paving Inc 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE S R Mechanical, Inc 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific Corporation 5,324 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maple Grove Hospital 1,016 FTE
CITY-NEAR MNMPL - MAPLE GROVE 932 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAPLE GROVE (MNMPL) 760 FTE
NAT-TCR 104 Dallas 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Beavercreek 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Board of Child Care 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepsi-Cola of Mitchell 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Twin Pines North Nursing and Rehabilitation 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5224 Bonded Logistics 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE 110 Orlando 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Xymox Technologies Inc. 92 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.