Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Minnesota

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie

Lester Prairie, MN · ~129 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie safety composite

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−1.1

2018→2019

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie injury rate improved

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie's TCR fell 1.1 from 4.0 in 2018 to 2.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.0 · 2019=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Lester Prairie, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #41/89
  • PHOTO Woodville
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~129 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Woodville (0.0 TCR gap)

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DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #41 safest of 89 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Minnesota.

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie (129 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie
DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie (129 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie has more employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m median and a lower 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
2019 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2018 4.0 3.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MN · Lester Prairie

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 10 employers in Lester Prairie, 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 Woodville 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR NYX New Albany 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR TASUS Corporation (Indiana) 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Channell Commercial NLV 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Long Prairie 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stanton 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knutson Construction Rochester 129 FTE
STATE-SIZE CECO Concrete : Minneapolis 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Liquibox Lester Prairie 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lester Building Systems, LLC LP 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lester Prairie Public School 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lester Building Systems, LLC LBI 52 FTE
NAT-TCR Cascade Health 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynchburg Regional Airport 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Purity - Huntsville - DTI 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR RCX Florida 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Home Office 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pardee Homes Inland Empire Division 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huron County Road Commission 129 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix (PHX) 129 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.