Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · North Dakota

Dakota Metal Fabrication

Manvel, ND · ~25 workers · 6 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

Dakota Metal Fabrication runs at 186% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dakota Metal Fabrication: 6.1 TCR = 186% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dakota Metal Fabrication safety composite

Dakota Metal Fabrication scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 34%), 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).

C

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Dakota Metal Fabrication: 3.8 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Dakota Metal Fabrication's TCR rose 5.2 from 3.8 in 2016 to 9.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Manvel, ND ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 186% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P34
  • PHOTO DMI Companies-Monong…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DMI Companies-Monongahela (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dakota Metal Fabrication in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dakota Metal Fabrication averages 6.1 TCR (186% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dakota Metal Fabrication TCR series: 2016=3.8 · 2018=12.4 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=3.9 · 2021=3.7 · 2023=9 · BLS 3.3

Where Dakota Metal Fabrication falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dakota Metal Fabrication (25 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dakota Metal Fabrication
Dakota Metal Fabrication (25 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Dakota Metal Fabrication has fewer employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 9.0 0.0 2 0 0
2021 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 3.9 3.9 1 0 0
2019 4.1 0.0 1 0 0
2018 12.4 4.1 3 0 0
2016 3.8 3.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · ND · Manvel

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 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 DMI Companies-Monongahela 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital Hardware Supply, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bridger Steel - Belgrade 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CONTECH TPAMP 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Basin Safety Consulting Corporation 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ashtabula 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roers West LLC 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apache - Marathon Petroleum 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Court at Round Rock 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Smt Industries 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Industrial Door Company 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearwing Productions Arizona LLC 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CARS Recon Inc Birmingham B 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Lumber Company, Inc 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airdyne Aerospace 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nursery 25 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.