Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Minnesota

Freeway Ford

Bloomington, MN · ~71 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freeway Ford runs at 239% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade F.

Freeway Ford: 8.1 TCR = 239% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freeway Ford safety composite

Freeway Ford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Freeway Ford: 8.2 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Freeway Ford's TCR rose 0.8 from 8.2 in 2017 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Bloomington, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 239% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #217/240
  • PHOTO Kendall Mercedes-Ben…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kendall Mercedes-Benz - Bend (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freeway Ford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freeway Ford averages 8.1 TCR (239% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Freeway Ford TCR series: 2017=8.2 · 2021=8.7 · 2022=6.6 · 2024=9 · BLS 3.4

Where Freeway Ford falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #217 safest of 240 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Minnesota.

Freeway Ford (71 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 Freeway Ford
Freeway Ford (71 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Freeway Ford has more employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 9.0 6.8 4 0 0
2022 6.6 6.6 3 0 0
2021 8.7 8.7 4 0 0
2017 8.2 3.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · MN · Bloomington

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 306 employers in Bloomington, 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 Kendall Mercedes-Benz - Bend 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR GATR Truck Center of Elk River 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Patrick Automotive Inc 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haselwood Chevrolet Buick GMC 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fagen, Inc. 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rochester Office 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donlar Construction Company 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hanson Silo Company 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0081 BLOOMINGTON 8170 BLDG 2,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR HP - 8170 2,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bloomington/Normandale 1,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donaldson Company Inc. 1,390 FTE
NAT-TCR 2281 - San Jose Central 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1901 - West Des Moines SW 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0959 - Clarksville 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0873 - Ocala 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Savannah, GA 542 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE 00558 American Fork Svc Ctr 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE LNS ChipBlaster Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corner Market #6012 71 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, 2022, 2021, 2017. 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.