Automotive parts and supply stores · Minnesota

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake

Prior Lake, MN · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Automotive parts and supply stores workplace, earning a grade B.

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake: 1.7 TCR = 51% of Automotive parts and supply stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake safety composite

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−3.5

2022→2023

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake injury rate improved

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441310 · Prior Lake, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/24
  • PHOTO Napa Ellsworth
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Napa Ellsworth (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake averages 1.7 TCR (51% of the Automotive parts and supply stores BLS benchmark).

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

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake TCR series: 2022=3.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake falls in its industry

1,258 Automotive parts and supply st establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 24 Automotive parts and supply st employers in Minnesota.

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake (27 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake
Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake (27 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Cottens' NAPA Prior Lake has fewer employees than the Automotive parts and supply stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441310 · MN · Prior Lake

1,258 Automotive parts and supply stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 27 employers in Prior 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 Napa Ellsworth 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4757 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fisher Auto Parts - NASHNH 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABC AUTO PARTS & SALES, INC. 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Featherstone Fruits and Vegetables LLC. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City Feedmill 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms PAP MN 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2011-Stanton, MN 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Prior Lake 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR PHS - McKenna Crossing 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lunds - Prior Lake 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cal-Tex Electric, Inc. 98 FTE
NAT-TCR Opp - Tubes & Cores - C334 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Toe River Health District 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotel & Restaurant Supply Memphis 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Newberry College 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Falling Leaves Lawn Care 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Hotel 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Terrace 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pentagon Technologies TSG Gresham OR 27 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.