Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Minnesota

Buerkle Imports Company Inc

White Bear Lake, MN · ~61 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buerkle Imports Company Inc runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade D.

Buerkle Imports Company Inc: 6.5 TCR = 192% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buerkle Imports Company Inc safety composite

Buerkle Imports Company Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Buerkle Imports Company Inc: 0.0 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2024

Buerkle Imports Company Inc's TCR rose 12.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 12.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · White Bear Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 192% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #199/240
  • PHOTO Hansord Pontiac Comp…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hansord Pontiac Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buerkle Imports Company Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buerkle Imports Company Inc averages 6.5 TCR (192% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Buerkle Imports Company Inc TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.2 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=8.3 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=12 · BLS 3.4

Where Buerkle Imports Company Inc falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #199 safest of 240 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Minnesota.

Buerkle Imports Company Inc (61 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Buerkle Imports Company Inc
Buerkle Imports Company Inc (61 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Buerkle Imports Company Inc has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2024 12.0 8.6 7 0 0
2023 6.3 6.3 4 0 0
2022 5.8 5.8 3 0 0
2021 8.3 2.1 4 0 0
2020 10.5 6.3 5 0 0
2019 6.9 5.2 4 0 0
2018 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2017 6.2 4.7 4 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · MN · White Bear Lake

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 88 employers in White Bear Lake, 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 Hansord Pontiac Company 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Horne Hyundai 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR C Harper - GMC Connellsville 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tom Dinsdale Automotive Inc 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gittleman Construction and Maintenance 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE R and G Construction Co. 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE BLK ELECTRIC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cresco Food Technologies 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR White Bear Lake Area Schools 1,280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carlson Building Maintenance, Inc. 693 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carlson Building Maintenance Corporate Office 667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Century College 557 FTE
NAT-TCR Bridgeview Center 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DCHM Comfort Suites Hartville 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Tecan SP Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DI Fleet Services 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Residence at Orchard Grove 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE HEXPOL Barberton 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE SP Richards Co. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Steve's Electric, LLC 61 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.