Preserving purchased wood and wood products · Minnesota

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins

Watkins, MN · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Preserving purchased wood and wood products workplace, earning a grade B.

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins: 1.8 TCR = 53% of Preserving purchased wood and wood products BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins safety composite

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins held a steady TCR band

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321114 · Watkins, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 53% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO Counce
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Counce (0.0 TCR gap)

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Louisiana-Pacific Watkins in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Louisiana-Pacific Watkins averages 1.8 TCR (53% of the Preserving purchased wood and wood products BLS benchmark).

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

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3.3 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Louisiana-Pacific Watkins falls in its industry

183 Preserving purchased wood and establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 4 Preserving purchased wood and employers in Minnesota.

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins (30 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Louisiana-Pacific Watkins
Louisiana-Pacific Watkins (30 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Louisiana-Pacific Watkins has fewer employees than the Preserving purchased wood and wood produ median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.3 0.0 2 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321114 · MN · Watkins

183 Preserving purchased wood and wood products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Watkins, 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 Counce 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR finca 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koppers Newsoms 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoover Treated Wood Products - Pine Bluff 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nelson Nursery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Plains Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Westland Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Grow Finish 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Care Center and Garden View 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hilltop Health Care Center 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wakins Elem 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Priority Management Group 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Home Improvements Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Millers Custom Cabinets 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Boyd's Kinsman Home, Inc 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Speedway 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walker's Hardware & Lumber 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE MSI-Belle Chasse 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE DiNatale Construction, Inc. 30 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. 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.