Truck trailer body shops · Minnesota

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc.

Luverne, MN · ~27 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. runs at 289% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truck trailer body shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc.: 6.1 TCR = 289% of Truck trailer body shops BLS 2.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. safety composite

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. held a steady TCR band

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 19.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=19.4 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=8.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811121 · Luverne, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 289% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #23/31
  • PHOTO Dejana Truck and Uti…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dejana Truck and Utility Equipment - Kings Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. averages 6.1 TCR (289% of the Truck trailer body shops BLS benchmark).

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

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=19.4 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=7 · 2022=4.2 · 2023=8.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.1

Where Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. falls in its industry

277 Truck trailer body shops establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 31 Truck trailer body shops employers in Minnesota.

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. (27 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc.
Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. (27 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Hills Stainless Steel & Equipment Co., Inc. has fewer employees than the Truck trailer body shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.4 4.2 2 0 0
2022 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2021 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2020 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2019 19.4 3.9 3 2 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811121 · MN · Luverne

277 Truck trailer body shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 21 employers in Luverne, 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 Dejana Truck and Utility Equipment - Kings Park 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARS Recon Inc Birmingham B 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enterprise 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaMettry's Collision - Minnetonka 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Featherstone Fruits and Vegetables LLC. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City Feedmill 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms PAP MN 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2011-Stanton, MN 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN,Luverne-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN,LUVERNE - Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota Veterans Home-Luverne 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luverne Middle/High School 158 FTE
NAT-TCR Sanctuary at Bellbrook 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Prides Corner Farms, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR A-1 A-Lectrician, Inc 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bayport 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ascendum Machinery - Raleigh 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building Maintenace - Headquarters (CHE P3 +CHS 5th Floor) 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ascendum Machinery - Buford 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 180 Riverside Boulevard 27 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.