Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling · Minnesota

Lakes Gas Co.

Forest Lake, MN · ~138 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lakes Gas Co. runs at 110% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade C.

Lakes Gas Co.: 3.7 TCR = 110% of Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakes Gas Co. safety composite

Lakes Gas Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2017→2020

Lakes Gas Co. injury rate improved

Lakes Gas Co.'s TCR fell 2.5 from 5.0 in 2017 to 2.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 5.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.0 · 2020=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Forest Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.7 · 110% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK P71
  • PHOTO Springvale, ME
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~138 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Springvale, ME (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lakes Gas Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lakes Gas Co. averages 3.7 TCR (110% of the Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Lakes Gas Co. TCR series: 2017=5 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Lakes Gas Co. falls in its industry

366 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Lakes Gas Co. (138 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 050100150 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lakes Gas Co.
Lakes Gas Co. (138 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Lakes Gas Co. has more employees than the Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, d median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2020 2.5 2.5 6 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · MN · Forest Lake

366 Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 71 employers in Forest 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 Springvale, ME 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Maryland Oil - Prince Frederick 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bealeton - Bealeton 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Jackson 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waymouth Farms Inc 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abdallah Candies Inc 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernicks Pepsi of Duluth 138 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chaska B2 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest Lake YMCA 1,477 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2274 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2274 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinco, Inc. 288 FTE
NAT-TCR Great Lakes Elkhart 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Newnan, Herring 24 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000026 Quickchek Food Stores 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Manufacturing 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 204606-Lex-Blue Grass Sta 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE Di - Cal Fire 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2693 Hornbacher's Village West 138 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fountainview Center 138 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: 2020, 2017. 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.