Harness assemblies for electronic use manufacturing · Minnesota

Kato Cable

Mankato, MN · ~79 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kato Cable runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Harness assemblies for electronic use manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kato Cable: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Harness assemblies for electronic use manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kato Cable safety composite

Kato Cable scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Kato Cable held a steady TCR band

Kato Cable's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.6 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334419 · Mankato, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO TTM Technologies
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TTM Technologies (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kato Cable in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kato Cable averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Harness assemblies for electronic use manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kato Cable TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Kato Cable falls in its industry

334 Harness assemblies for electro establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 9 Harness assemblies for electro employers in Minnesota.

Kato Cable (79 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 108 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Kato Cable
Kato Cable (79 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 108 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Kato Cable has fewer employees than the Harness assemblies for electronic use ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.6 2.6 5 0 0
2020 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334419 · MN · Mankato

334 Harness assemblies for electronic use manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 214 employers in Mankato, 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 TTM Technologies 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR HMS 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heale Manufacturing Co., LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richland Plant 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elcor Construction 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE ALLSTATES PAVEMENT RECYCLING & STABILIZATION, INC 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sir Lines A-Lot 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE USI (Hastings, MN) 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota State University, Mankato 2,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Mankato 2,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR MRCI - Premier Drive 1,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mankato Area Public Schools 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Roses 524 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Portsmouth 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Construction 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dept. of Corrections (24) 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Branch 380 - B27 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE G3 Quality Inc 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teagle Hall, LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Joaquin Community Hospital 79 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.