Manufacturing · Minnesota

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG

Northfield, MN · ~131 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG: 3.9 TCR = 119% of Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG safety composite

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−0.9

2016→2019

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG injury rate improved

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG's TCR fell 0.9 from 3.3 in 2016 to 2.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327215 · Northfield, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Incom, Rte 169
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Incom, Rte 169 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cardinal CG - Northfield CG in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cardinal CG - Northfield CG averages 3.9 TCR (119% of the Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2017=5.7 · 2018=4.5 · 2019=2.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Cardinal CG - Northfield CG falls in its industry

441 Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #7 safest of 9 Manufacturing employers in Minnesota.

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG (131 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cardinal CG - Northfield CG
Cardinal CG - Northfield CG (131 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 94 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Cardinal CG - Northfield CG has more employees than the Manufacturing 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
2019 2.4 0.0 3 0 0
2018 4.5 0.0 6 0 0
2017 5.7 2.4 7 0 0
2016 3.3 1.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327215 · MN · Northfield

441 Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 66 employers in Northfield, 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 Incom, Rte 169 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cardinal CG -Loveland CG 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Technical Glass Products 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Glass Products 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Enebak Construction Company 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parallel Technologies 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE R. J. Zavoral & Sons, Inc. 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernicks Twin Cities 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Olaf College 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carleton College 1,598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Mill Northfield MN 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northfield Hospital + Clinics- Campus 620 FTE
NAT-TCR Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company-Midwest, LLC. 627E-C7-F7 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 1672 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JR Simplot Company-SGS Umatilla 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0017 2648 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0029 2212 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fluortek, Inc. 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Basic American Ingredients 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6962-Swy 0025 1195 131 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.