Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Howard Lake Store

Howard Lake, MN · ~20 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard Lake Store runs at 549% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Howard Lake Store: 12.1 TCR = 549% of Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Lake Store safety composite

Howard Lake Store scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Howard Lake Store: 0.0 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 26.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Howard Lake Store's TCR rose 12.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 12.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 26.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423820 · Howard Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 549% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #34/40
  • PHOTO Osceola Store
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Osceola Store (0.1 TCR gap)

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Howard Lake Store in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard Lake Store averages 12.1 TCR (549% of the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Howard Lake Store TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.3 · 2020=19.6 · 2022=26.3 · 2023=19.9 · 2024=12.4 · BLS 2.2

Where Howard Lake Store falls in its industry

700 Farm machinery and equipment m establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 40 Farm machinery and equipment m employers in Minnesota.

Howard Lake Store (20 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard Lake Store
Howard Lake Store (20 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Howard Lake Store has fewer employees than the Farm machinery and equipment merchant wh median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 12.4 0.0 3 0 0
2023 19.9 5.0 4 0 0
2022 26.3 5.3 5 0 0
2020 19.6 6.5 3 0 0
2019 6.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423820 · MN · Howard Lake

700 Farm machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 13 employers in Howard Lake, 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 Osceola Store 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berchtold Equipment Company - Delano 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turf Star, Inc- Brea 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Equipment 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE C74 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNSGA-SEL-SELECT GENETICS ADMIN' 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bees Minnesota 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dura Supreme 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forsman Farms 193 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howard Lake Branch 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society - Howard Lake 58 FTE
NAT-TCR Marran Oil LLC 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Aspen Transitional Rehab 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DeKalb Police Department 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR VC - 2150 N Victoria Ave, O 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Applied Technology Manufacturing Co 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE NonStop Scaffolding 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayes Carpentry 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Staffing - Santa Rosa 20 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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