Abrasives merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Central McGowan

St. Cloud, MN · ~81 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central McGowan runs at 707% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Abrasives merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Central McGowan: 15.6 TCR = 707% of Abrasives merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central McGowan safety composite

Central McGowan scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Central McGowan: 13.3 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 17.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.15× in 2023

Central McGowan's TCR rose 4.5 from 13.3 in 2020 to 17.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · St. Cloud, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 707% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #32/33
  • PHOTO Sheridan
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sheridan (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central McGowan in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central McGowan averages 15.6 TCR (707% of the Abrasives merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Central McGowan TCR series: 2020=13.3 · 2023=17.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Central McGowan falls in its industry

589 Abrasives merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 33 Abrasives merchant wholesalers employers in Minnesota.

Central McGowan (81 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central McGowan
Central McGowan (81 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Central McGowan has more employees than the Abrasives merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 17.8 2.4 15 0 0
2020 13.3 4.8 9 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · MN · St. Cloud

589 Abrasives merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 130 employers in St. Cloud, 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 Sheridan 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ram Tool Construction Supply Company - Tampa 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westbrook 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamilton 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rochester Breeder Farms 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE SJ Louis Construction, Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flynn Midwest - Minneapolis 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital 4,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Cloud Hospital 4,414 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Cloud State University 1,454 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Health Plaza 928 FTE
NAT-TCR Covenant Healthcare, LLC 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Martin America 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fort Worth Animal Emergency Hospital 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kinderhook Operating LLC 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE LNK - 325 Kennedy 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bibb Distributing Co 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie House Living Center 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Orleans Branch 81 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, 2020. 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.