Machine shops · Minnesota

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc

Blaine, MN · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc: 6.1 TCR = 185% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc safety composite

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc: 4.5 → 16.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.75× in 2023

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc's TCR rose 12.4 from 4.5 in 2017 to 16.9 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Blaine, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 185% of ind

  • DART 16.9 DART
  • RANK #60/92
  • PHOTO Alton-Machine Shop-B…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech (0.0 TCR gap)

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Code Welding & Mfg. Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Code Welding & Mfg. Inc averages 6.1 TCR (185% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc TCR series: 2017=4.5 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=16.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Code Welding & Mfg. Inc falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops 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 #60 safest of 92 Machine shops employers in Minnesota.

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc (21 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Code Welding & Mfg. Inc
Code Welding & Mfg. Inc (21 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Code Welding & Mfg. Inc has fewer employees than the Machine shops 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
2023 16.9 16.9 1 2 0
2022 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.9 0.0 0 1 0
2017 4.5 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MN · Blaine

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 163 employers in Blaine, 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 Alton-Machine Shop-Brasstech 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arrowhead Machining, Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MN01-Bob Inc-Minnesota 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carolina Precision Technologies - Mooresville 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Winthrop Agronomy 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donahues Greenhouse 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE M7 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNLOG-SEL-SEL MN LOGISTICS' 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Estee Lauder - Blaine 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR Infinite Campus, Inc. 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1832 - Blaine 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3498 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Trim-Rite Food Corporation 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sanderson Farms St. Pauls Hatchery 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ward Nipple 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR United Miscellaneous & Ornamental Steel Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - McCall 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comren, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hawk Plastics 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE McDal Corporation KOP 21 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.