Industrial Mold Manufacturing · Minnesota
Custom Mold and Design
Forest Lake, MN · ~78 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 2.2
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Custom Mold and Design runs at 68% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial Mold Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.
- B
- Good Safety Record
- 2.2
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 12
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Custom Mold and Design's OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.2 to the Industrial Mold Manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (68% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Custom Mold and Design's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Custom Mold and Design falls in its industry
239 Industrial Mold Manufacturing establishmentsSafer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.
Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Industrial Mold Manufacturing employers in Minnesota.
Trend analysis for Custom Mold and Design
Between 2016 and 2024, Custom Mold and Design's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 3.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 8 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2016, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2017 saw the highest rate, at 3.8, a spread of 3.8 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 7 reporting years, Custom Mold and Design recorded 12 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 12 injuries shown on this page for Custom Mold and Design are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 333511 - Industrial Mold Manufacturing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 125,707 hours worked = 1.59 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Custom Mold and Design (this establishment) | 2.23 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Industrial molds (except steel ingot) manufacturing industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 333511 |
| Minnesota state avg (all industries) | 5.18 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Custom Mold and Design to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2.7 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 3.5 | 2.4 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 3.8 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Custom Mold and Design's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Industrial Mold Manufacturing peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 68% of the Industrial Mold Manufacturing benchmark, Custom Mold and Design reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Industrial Mold Manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.