Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing · Minnesota

Hearing Components, Inc.

Oakdale, MN · ~45 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hearing Components, Inc. runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hearing Components, Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hearing Components, Inc. safety composite

Hearing Components, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2017→2023

Hearing Components, Inc. injury rate improved

Hearing Components, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.5 from 4.2 in 2017 to 2.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.2 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=6.2 · 2021=6.4 · 2023=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326150 · Oakdale, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Sekisui Voltek, LLC,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sekisui Voltek, LLC, Coldwater (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hearing Components, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hearing Components, Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (154% of the Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Hearing Components, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2018=5.9 · 2019=6.2 · 2021=6.4 · 2023=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Hearing Components, Inc. falls in its industry

474 Cushions, carpet and rug, uret establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Cushions, carpet and rug, uret employers in Minnesota.

Hearing Components, Inc. (45 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hearing Components, Inc.
Hearing Components, Inc. (45 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Hearing Components, Inc. has fewer employees than the Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and o median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2023 2.7 2.7 0 1 0
2021 6.4 2.1 3 0 0
2019 6.2 1.6 4 0 0
2018 5.9 2.0 3 0 0
2017 4.2 2.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326150 · MN · Oakdale

474 Cushions, carpet and rug, urethane and other foam plastics (except polystrene), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 74 employers in Oakdale, 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 Sekisui Voltek, LLC, Coldwater 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Industries, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Future Foam 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ralph S. Alberts Co., Inc. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE District 45 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allstar Construction Commercial Op Co, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Doran Construction Company, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hasslen Construction Company, Inc. 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mulcahy Nickolaus LLC 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakdale - Main Store 270 FTE
CITY-NEAR 11762 Oakdale 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR MOAK - Oakdale Manufacturing 208 FTE
NAT-TCR Power Curbers Companies LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 5404 - Dulles 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Google Noshery 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aristo LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bakersfield 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oak View Auto Auction 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0305 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson Transport 45 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: 2023, 2021, 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.