Precision turned product manufacturing · Minnesota

La Machine Shop, Inc.

Ham Lake, MN · ~36 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

La Machine Shop, Inc. runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Precision turned product manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

La Machine Shop, Inc.: 5.5 TCR = 166% of Precision turned product manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

La Machine Shop, Inc. safety composite

La Machine Shop, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

F

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−9.4

2017→2024

La Machine Shop, Inc. injury rate improved

La Machine Shop, Inc.'s TCR fell 9.4 from 12.4 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.4 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=9.0 · 2022=3.0 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332721 · Ham Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 166% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #12/17
  • PHOTO John Prosock Machine…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Prosock Machine Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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La Machine Shop, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows La Machine Shop, Inc. averages 5.5 TCR (166% of the Precision turned product manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

La Machine Shop, Inc. TCR series: 2017=12.4 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=9 · 2022=3 · 2023=3 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where La Machine Shop, Inc. falls in its industry

464 Precision turned product manuf establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 17 Precision turned product manuf employers in Minnesota.

La Machine Shop, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate La Machine Shop, Inc.
La Machine Shop, Inc. (36 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.6

La Machine Shop, Inc. has fewer employees than the Precision turned product manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2021 9.0 9.0 3 0 0
2020 2.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.3 2.6 2 0 0
2017 12.4 5.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332721 · MN · Ham Lake

464 Precision turned product manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 28 employers in Ham 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 John Prosock Machine Inc 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Little Mountain Precision LLC - Tyler Plant 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swiss Automation, Inc. - Barrington 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MTI-Precision Screw Thread Corporation 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie Moon Nursery 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience - Olivia MN R&D 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Counties Cooperative Litchfield 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2011-Stanton, MN (Monsanto Co.) 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR CECO Concrete : Minneapolis 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quality Cleaning Inc. DBA QC Companies 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cool Air Mechanical Inc 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR McKinley Elementary 80 FTE
NAT-TCR Jos. H. Lowenstein & Sons, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cape Cod Hospital 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Geil Enterprises, Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stewart EFI CT 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Weddington Park 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Industries of South Central California-Warehouse Salvage 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Culligan - Phoenix 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Production Unlimited 36 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, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.