Industrial process control instruments manufacturing · Minnesota

Kahler Automation Corp

Fairmont, MN · ~82 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kahler Automation Corp runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Industrial process control instruments manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Kahler Automation Corp: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Industrial process control instruments manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kahler Automation Corp safety composite

Kahler Automation Corp scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kahler Automation Corp: 0.0 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kahler Automation Corp's TCR rose 2.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334513 · Fairmont, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/17
  • PHOTO Carl Zeiss Industria…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kahler Automation Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kahler Automation Corp averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Industrial process control instruments manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kahler Automation Corp TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Kahler Automation Corp falls in its industry

322 Industrial process control ins establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 17 Industrial process control ins employers in Minnesota.

Kahler Automation Corp (82 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 96 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 0200400600 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Kahler Automation Corp
Kahler Automation Corp (82 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 96 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Kahler Automation Corp has fewer employees than the Industrial process control instruments m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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 2.5 0.0 2 0 0
2023 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 1.2 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

334513 · MN · Fairmont

322 Industrial process control instruments manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 53 employers in Fairmont, 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 Carl Zeiss Industrial Quality Solutions 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marlboro 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baker Hughes 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence Rhode Island 0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frerichs Construction 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE RRSC Minneapolis/St. Paul Market 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE CD Tile & Stone 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lofton Label, Inc 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont 476 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3806 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3806 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairmont - Main Store 169 FTE
NAT-TCR CFM Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Shore Cryotronics, Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Scientific Design Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ECMS Express Inc 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE CT Wilson Construction Company 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Medical Management 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohsan - Sandusky 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Padub - Du Bois 82 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, 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.