Electrical contractors · Minnesota

Design Electric INC.

St. Cloud, MN · ~130 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Design Electric INC. runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Electrical contractors workplace, earning a grade C.

Design Electric INC.: 3.1 TCR = 110% of Electrical contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Design Electric INC. safety composite

Design Electric INC. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

Design Electric INC. held a steady TCR band

Design Electric INC.'s TCR held near 0.1 from 2.4 in 2020 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=2.4 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · St. Cloud, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 110% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #58/100
  • PHOTO Main Office
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~130 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Design Electric INC. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Design Electric INC. averages 3.1 TCR (110% of the Electrical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Design Electric INC. TCR series: 2020=2.4 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=5.7 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Design Electric INC. falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical contractors establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #58 safest of 100 Electrical contractors employers in Minnesota.

Design Electric INC. (130 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Design Electric INC.
Design Electric INC. (130 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Design Electric INC. has more employees than the Electrical contractors 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
2024 2.3 0.8 3 0 0
2023 5.7 4.1 7 0 0
2022 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2021 2.4 0.0 3 0 0
2020 2.4 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · MN · St. Cloud

4,550 Electrical contractors 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 Main Office 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eldridge Electric Company 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1501/1504 SeaTac Service and Construction/Tower Crew 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kalispell Electric, Inc. 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Faribault Grow Out 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARK Parent, LLC 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kerry Rochester 130 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vinylite Windows, LLC dba Vector 130 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 Landis Express 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PGW Autoglass 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Distribution Services, Ltd - Pennsylvania 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Ariel Akron 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dave's Fresh Marketplace of Cranston 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crawford Mechanical Services 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Greensboro- Guilford Metro 911 130 FTE
NAT-SIZE OJV Construction 130 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 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.