Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services · Minnesota

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington

Minneapolis, MN · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington runs at 200% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services workplace, earning a grade D.

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington: 1.0 TCR = 200% of Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services BLS 0.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington safety composite

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington held a steady TCR band

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541380 · Minneapolis, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 1.0 · 200% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO Arizona Proving Grou…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arizona Proving Grounds (0.0 TCR gap)

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Element Minneapolis-Bloomington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Element Minneapolis-Bloomington averages 1.0 TCR (200% of the Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services BLS benchmark).

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

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=0 · BLS 0.5

Where Element Minneapolis-Bloomington falls in its industry

232 Laboratory testing (except med establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Laboratory testing (except med employers in Minnesota.

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington (43 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Element Minneapolis-Bloomington
Element Minneapolis-Bloomington (43 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Element Minneapolis-Bloomington has fewer employees than the Laboratory testing (except medical, vete median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2018 2.2 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541380 · MN · Minneapolis

232 Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 1,321 employers in Minneapolis, 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 Arizona Proving Grounds 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stenstrom Protanic 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freeport-McMoRan Technology Center 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Janssen Titusville 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edina Service Center 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wigen Water Technologies 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Multi-Family - Central (MN) 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Twin Cities 22,522 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN950 MN TELECOMMUTER 12,021 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0501 - City Center 8,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hennepin County Medical Center 7,030 FTE
NAT-TCR Integrated Solutions 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 65 Madison, Inc. Restaurant 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR OC405 Partners JV 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwin Biotechnology, INC 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Town & Country Supermarket #3811 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Smith Erectors Inc 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Water Operations and Maintenance, LLC City of Camden 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sunshine Air Conditioning, Inc 43 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: 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.