Custom builders (except for-sale), single-family home · Minnesota

Economy Garages USA, Inc.

Duluth, MN · ~20 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Economy Garages USA, Inc. runs at 548% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Custom builders (except for-sale), single-family home workplace, earning a grade F.

Economy Garages USA, Inc.: 20.8 TCR = 548% of Custom builders (except for-sale), single-family home BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Economy Garages USA, Inc. safety composite

Economy Garages USA, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Economy Garages USA, Inc.: 13.1 → 15.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 47.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Economy Garages USA, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.3 from 13.1 in 2017 to 15.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 47.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236115 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.8 · 548% of ind

  • DART 15.5 DART
  • RANK #16/19
  • PHOTO Wes Hanson Builders
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wes Hanson Builders (0.1 TCR gap)

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Economy Garages USA, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Economy Garages USA, Inc. averages 20.8 TCR (548% of the Custom builders (except for-sale), single-family home BLS benchmark).

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

Economy Garages USA, Inc. TCR series: 2017=13.1 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=47.7 · 2020=26.3 · 2021=20.6 · 2023=7.3 · 2024=15.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Economy Garages USA, Inc. falls in its industry

976 Custom builders (except for-sa establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #16 safest of 19 Custom builders (except for-sa employers in Minnesota.

Economy Garages USA, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 20.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Economy Garages USA, Inc.
Economy Garages USA, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 20.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Economy Garages USA, Inc. has fewer employees than the Custom builders (except for-sale), singl median and a higher 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
2024 15.5 15.5 3 0 0
2023 7.3 0.0 1 0 0
2021 20.6 0.0 4 0 0
2020 26.3 5.3 5 0 0
2019 47.7 5.3 9 0 0
2018 15.2 15.2 3 0 0
2017 13.1 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236115 · MN · Duluth

976 Custom builders (except for-sale), single-family home employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 340 employers in Duluth, 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 Wes Hanson Builders 20.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Habitat for Humanity of Elkhart County, Inc 20.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMH Homes, Inc. 20.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taylor-Made Builders Inc 21.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE C74 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNSGA-SEL-SELECT GENETICS ADMIN' 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bees Minnesota 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Duluth 1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR TNN012 20.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bullfrog Dairy 20.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocala 20.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Chadwick Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, LLC 20.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Arkansas Area Agency on Aging- Crittenden 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE California Advanced Imaging Medical Associates - San Francisco Division 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maine Course Hospitality Group - Clearwater Beach Fairfield Inn 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Castlerock Development 20 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.