Panel work, wood millwork, manufacturing · Minnesota

Foreston Location

Foreston, MN · ~127 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Foreston Location runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Panel work, wood millwork, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Foreston Location: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Panel work, wood millwork, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Foreston Location safety composite

Foreston Location scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Foreston Location: 3.9 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2024

Foreston Location's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.9 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321918 · Foreston, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO Olon Industries
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Olon Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Foreston Location in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Foreston Location averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Panel work, wood millwork, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Foreston Location TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=1.4 · 2018=2.2 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=6 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Foreston Location falls in its industry

317 Panel work, wood millwork, man establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Panel work, wood millwork, man employers in Minnesota.

Foreston Location (127 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 050100150200250300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Foreston Location
Foreston Location (127 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Foreston Location has more employees than the Panel work, wood millwork, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 4.3 1.1 3 1 0
2023 6.3 3.2 6 0 0
2022 5.6 3.7 1 5 0
2021 5.3 3.0 5 2 0
2020 6.0 3.8 4 4 0
2019 3.7 1.5 4 1 0
2018 2.2 1.5 3 0 0
2017 1.4 1.4 2 0 0
2016 3.9 2.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321918 · MN · Foreston

317 Panel work, wood millwork, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota 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 Olon Industries 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Shutter Mill Inc. dba Kirtz Shutters 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rex Lumber Co CT yard 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Appalachian Wood Products Inc. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE FERTILE BELTRAMI SCHOOL DISTRICT 599 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brin Glass Service / Contract 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE PETERSON SHEET METAL INC 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonus Interiors 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harris Hardwoods, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-TCR Pattison Sign Group 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR New Hope Mills Manufacturing 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR R.K. Steel, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Milford 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Abilene Machine, LLC 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Manor of Ville Platte 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swift Lumber, Inc. 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Story City 127 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.