Steel manufacturing · Minnesota
Lapham-Hickey Steel
Little Canada, MN · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 4.2
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Lapham-Hickey Steel runs at 127% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.
Lapham-Hickey Steel: 4.2 TCR = 127% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Lapham-Hickey Steel safety composite
Lapham-Hickey Steel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).
31/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 4.19 per 100 workers
Safer than 32% of industry peers
- DART rate
- F 3.99 per 100 workers
Safer than 13% of industry peers
- Fatalities
- D 0
Safer than 53% 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
Lapham-Hickey Steel: 4.3 → 6.0 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 6.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.95× in 2024
Lapham-Hickey Steel's TCR rose 1.7 from 4.3 in 2022 to 6.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 331110 · Little Canada, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 127% of ind
- DART 4.0 DART
- RANK #3/7
- PHOTO Union Electric Steel…
- BOOK 3y book
- INJ 6 inj
- SIZE ~48 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Union Electric Steel - Carnegie (0.0 TCR gap)
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Lapham-Hickey Steel in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Lapham-Hickey Steel
4.2 TCR
- Union Electric
Union Electric Steel - Carnegie
4.2 TCR
- Uniparts Olsen
Uniparts Olsen, Inc.
4.2 TCR
- Butler Main
Butler Main
4.2 TCR
- Flexco Grand R
Flexco Grand Rapids-Walker
4.1 TCR
What this shows Lapham-Hickey Steel averages 4.2 TCR (127% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).
Lapham-Hickey Steel TCR series: 2022=4.3 · 2023=2.3 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.3
Where Lapham-Hickey Steel falls in its industry
416 Steel manufacturing establishmentsSafer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.
Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 7 Steel manufacturing employers in Minnesota.
Lapham-Hickey Steel has fewer employees than the Steel manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
331110 · MN · Little Canada
416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 35 employers in Little Canada, 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 | Union Electric Steel - Carnegie | 4.2 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Uniparts Olsen, Inc. | 4.2 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Butler Main | 4.2 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Flexco Grand Rapids-Walker | 4.1 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Waukon | 48 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Swenoda | 48 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Central Region Cooperative - SE Agronomy East/BCA/Shop | 48 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | 2101-Redwood Falls, MN | 48 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Q3 Contracting | 926 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | CN St. Paul | 802 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Bix Produce | 463 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Aquarius Water Conditioning, Inc | 183 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Ward-Kraft, Inc. | 4.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Denver Metro Electric Inc. | 4.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Conduit Pipe Products | 4.2 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Arch Solar | 4.2 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Wilmington 10228 | 48 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Abilene 10701 | 48 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Gresham 10055 | 48 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Newark 10213 | 48 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.