Home improvement centers · Minnesota

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail

Name: Hilltop Lumber Ottertail Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ottertail, MN · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.7
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home improvement centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail: 7.7 TCR = 228% of Home improvement centers BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail safety composite

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.0

2022→2024

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail injury rate improved

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail's TCR fell 9.0 from 9.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=9.0 · 2023=14.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Ottertail, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 228% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #69/109
PHOTO DES MOINES IA - 3046
BOOK 3y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DES MOINES IA - 3046 (0.0 TCR gap)

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7.7
DES MOINES IA

7.7
MIAMISBURG OH

7.7
1106 LEXINGTO

7.7
2807-2417

7.7

What this shows Hilltop Lumber Ottertail averages 7.7 TCR (228% of the Home improvement centers BLS benchmark).

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail TCR series: 2022=9 · 2023=14.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Hilltop Lumber Ottertail falls in its industry

6,309 Home improvement centers establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 109 Home improvement centers employers in Minnesota.

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail (45 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Hilltop Lumber Ottertail has fewer employees than the Home improvement centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2024	0.0	0.0	0	0
2023	14.2	10.7	3	1
2022	9.0	9.0	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · MN · Ottertail

6,309 Home improvement centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 6 employers in Ottertail, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	DES MOINES IA - 3046	DES MOINES, IA	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MIAMISBURG OH - 3296	MIAMISBURG, OH	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1106 LEXINGTON SC	LEXINGTON, SC	7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	2807-2417	CARNEGIE, PA	7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	District 45	HANCOCK	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Allstar Construction Commercial Op Co, LLC	MAPLE PLAIN	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Doran Construction Company, LLC	BLOOMINGTON	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hasslen Construction Company, Inc.	ORTONVILLE	45 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Carrs Tree Service - Ottertail	Ottertail	141 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Thumper Pond Resort	Ottertail	71 FTE
CITY-NEAR	10 Sheriff's Operations Center	Ottertail	34 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ottertail Fire & Rescue	Ottertail	23 FTE
NAT-TCR	The Escape Game Irvine LLC	Irvine, CA	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	M2H2 Holdings LLC	Tanner, AL	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ludington State Park - Dnr	Ludington, MI	7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Miamisburg Oh - 3296	Miamisburg, OH	7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	J.R. Barto Heating / Air-Conditioning / Sheet Metal, Inc.	Orcutt, CA	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wabash Lafayette Process Systems	Lafayette, IN	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stryker JR- Metairie, LA	Metairie, LA	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	El Paso Prepared Foods, LLC	El Paso, TX	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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.