Machine shops · Minnesota

Houck Machine Company

Name: Houck Machine Company Workplace Safety Data
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Plymouth, MN · ~29 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Houck Machine Company runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade A.

Houck Machine Company: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Houck Machine Company safety composite

Houck Machine Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

Houck Machine Company held a steady TCR band

Houck Machine Company's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Plymouth, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #4/92
PHOTO Chucking Machine Pro…
BOOK 6y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chucking Machine Product (0.0 TCR gap)

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0.7
Chucking Machi

0.7
Delva Tool and

0.7
Glenn Machine

0.7
Fairview Machi

0.7

What this shows Houck Machine Company averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

Houck Machine Company TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Houck Machine Company falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 92 Machine shops employers in Minnesota.

Houck Machine Company (29 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Houck Machine Company has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2022	4.3	4.3	1
2021	0.0	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0
2018	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MN · Plymouth

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 321 employers in Plymouth, 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	Chucking Machine Product	FRANKLIN PARK, IL	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Delva Tool and Machine Corp	CINNAMINSON, NJ	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Glenn Machine Works, Inc	COLUMBUS, MS	0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fairview Machine	TOPSFIELD, MA	0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Northern Plains Dairy LLP	ST. PETER	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	The tru Shrimp Company	BALATON	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	2530-Redwood Falls, MN-FND (Monsanto Co.)	REDWOOD FALLS	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Kasota Stone Fabricators	MANKATO	29 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lawrence Service LLC	Plymouth	3,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EP SH Plymouth MN	Plymouth	2,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EP / SH Plymouth MN	Plymouth	1,982 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CN Plymouth	Plymouth	1,565 FTE
NAT-TCR	Motion Systems : Forest City	Forest City, NC	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Grand Island Office	Grand Island, NE	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Positronic Mount Vernon Facility	Mount Vernon, MO	0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Engineered Materials : Lexington	Lexington, KY	0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Metzler Brothers Transport	Duncansville, PA	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dri-Air Industries, Inc	East Windsor, CT	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Justice Quality Foods #2	Regina, KY	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bralco Metals	Tukwila, WA	29 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.