Steel manufacturing · Minnesota

Louis Industries

Paynesville, MN · ~74 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Louis Industries runs at 307% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Steel manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Louis Industries: 10.1 TCR = 307% of Steel manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Louis Industries safety composite

Louis Industries scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

Louis Industries: 4.0 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 19.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Louis Industries's TCR rose 4.2 from 4.0 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331110 · Paynesville, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 307% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO Prime Metals & Alloys
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prime Metals & Alloys (0.0 TCR gap)

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Louis Industries in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Louis Industries averages 10.1 TCR (307% of the Steel manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Louis Industries TCR series: 2016=4 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=10.4 · 2020=19 · 2021=14.6 · 2022=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Louis Industries falls in its industry

416 Steel manufacturing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 Steel manufacturing employers in Minnesota.

Louis Industries (74 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Louis Industries
Louis Industries (74 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 155 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Louis Industries 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
2022 8.2 0.0 9 0 0
2021 14.6 8.5 11 1 0
2020 19.0 11.1 9 3 0
2019 10.4 8.9 7 0 0
2018 4.6 0.0 3 0 0
2016 4.0 2.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331110 · MN · Paynesville

416 Steel manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 23 employers in Paynesville, 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 Prime Metals & Alloys 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electralloy - Wrought Products 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR George Jue Manufacturing Co Inc 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Craig Welding & Mfg. Inc. 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Willet Hauser Company, LLC 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Shoreview 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wenzel Plymouth Plumbing 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Home Insulation 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Health Paynesville, Hospital, Clinic, PT, Lab, Business Office 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Health-Paynesville 236 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Paynesville 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Industries, LLP 125 FTE
NAT-TCR South Bay Recycling 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 161704-Collinsville Po 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 165791-Oak-South Station Br 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 016120-Odenville Po 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Greif Naperville 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 548063-Spo-Spokane Valley Br 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 402855-Eug-Main Office Sta 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 406767-Por-Oak Grove Br 74 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, 2018, 2016. 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.