Drywall contractors · Minnesota

Friedges Drywall, Inc.

New Market, MN · ~34 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Friedges Drywall, Inc. runs at 528% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Friedges Drywall, Inc.: 14.8 TCR = 528% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Friedges Drywall, Inc. safety composite

Friedges Drywall, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Friedges Drywall, Inc.: 14.1 → 16.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Friedges Drywall, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.2 from 14.1 in 2016 to 16.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · New Market, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 528% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/34
  • PHOTO Big City Insulation …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big City Insulation of Idaho #896 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Friedges Drywall, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Friedges Drywall, Inc. averages 14.8 TCR (528% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Friedges Drywall, Inc. TCR series: 2016=14.1 · 2017=13.9 · 2018=16.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Friedges Drywall, Inc. falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 34 Drywall contractors employers in Minnesota.

Friedges Drywall, Inc. (34 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Friedges Drywall, Inc.
Friedges Drywall, Inc. (34 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Friedges Drywall, Inc. has fewer employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2018 16.3 0.0 5 0 0
2017 13.9 3.5 4 0 0
2016 14.1 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · MN · New Market

1,613 Drywall contractors 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 Big City Insulation of Idaho #896 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR USI Chase San Antonio 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Custom Insulation Co., Inc. 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HWE Sutton Insulation 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE KBQ, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forsman Farms SH 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klaphake Feed Mill Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale Miami Township 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Legends - Winston-Salem Dash 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZSDA 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake View Terrace Memory Care Residence 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE W.C. Transport 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE NatureScapes 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Two Men And A Truck of Asheville 0218 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parks and Recreation 34 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.