Machine bases, metal, manufacturing · Minnesota

Lou-Rich Front Street

Albert Lea, MN · ~277 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lou-Rich Front Street runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine bases, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Lou-Rich Front Street: 3.1 TCR = 95% of Machine bases, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lou-Rich Front Street safety composite

Lou-Rich Front Street scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Lou-Rich Front Street: 3.2 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2022

Lou-Rich Front Street's TCR rose 1.5 from 3.2 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Albert Lea, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #15/39
  • PHOTO Lou-Rich Assembly Pl…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~277 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lou-Rich Assembly Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lou-Rich Front Street in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lou-Rich Front Street averages 3.1 TCR (95% of the Machine bases, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lou-Rich Front Street TCR series: 2017=3.2 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=2.3 · 2022=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Lou-Rich Front Street falls in its industry

827 Machine bases, metal, manufact establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 39 Machine bases, metal, manufact employers in Minnesota.

Lou-Rich Front Street (277 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Lou-Rich Front Street
Lou-Rich Front Street (277 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Lou-Rich Front Street has more employees than the Machine bases, metal, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 4.7 1.1 10 3 0
2021 2.3 1.1 6 0 0
2020 3.3 0.8 8 0 0
2019 2.2 0.8 5 1 0
2017 3.2 0.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · MN · Albert Lea

827 Machine bases, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 Lou-Rich Assembly Plant 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Systems Engineering & Mfg, Inc 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hamilton Safe Company Inc 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mueller Refrigeration 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Gear 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0443 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE MINNESOTA 277 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0220 - Eden Prairie 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooked- Albert Lea MN 253 FTE
NAT-TCR CoorsTek Inc.- 9th St Facility 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Clock Mobility 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Glass Solutions, Inc 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ELP-ODFL 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northwood Manufacturing Inc 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Port Neal 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE OSHA Log LPC Crosswhite 277 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plano Molding - Sandwich 277 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, 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.