Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing · Minnesota

Carstens Industries

Melrose, MN · ~34 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carstens Industries runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Carstens Industries: 6.2 TCR = 187% of Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carstens Industries safety composite

Carstens Industries scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.8

2017→2024

Carstens Industries injury rate improved

Carstens Industries's TCR fell 3.8 from 8.3 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.3 · 2018=3.9 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326130 · Melrose, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 187% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Nudo Products, Inc.
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nudo Products, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Carstens Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carstens Industries averages 6.2 TCR (187% of the Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Carstens Industries TCR series: 2017=8.3 · 2018=3.9 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=6.9 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Carstens Industries falls in its industry

160 Laminated plastics plate, rod, establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Laminated plastics plate, rod, employers in Minnesota.

Carstens Industries (34 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Carstens Industries
Carstens Industries (34 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Carstens Industries has fewer employees than the Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 4.5 2.2 2 0 0
2023 6.9 2.3 3 0 0
2022 7.3 2.4 3 0 0
2018 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2017 8.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326130 · MN · Melrose

160 Laminated plastics plate, rod, and sheet, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 24 employers in Melrose, 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 Nudo Products, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adorn 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Creative Pultrusions - PA 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ProVia New Philadelphia Facility 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE KBQ, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forsman Farms SH 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klaphake Feed Mill Inc. 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose Plant 714 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose CentraCare Health 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare - Melrose 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose Area Public Schools 251 FTE
NAT-TCR URS Selkirk 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mhhs-Woodlands Hosp 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cooper Trail Senior Living 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BigShots Golf 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ashland Farm LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales-Waukon 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Astro Electroplating LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deseret Meat 34 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, 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.