Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove, MN · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade B.

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove: 1.1 TCR = 50% of Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove safety composite

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 3.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423840 · Cottage Grove, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.1 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/33
  • PHOTO Branch 046 - MTS Sch…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Branch 046 - MTS Schaumburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove averages 1.1 TCR (50% of the Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2021=3.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove falls in its industry

589 Industrial supplies (except di establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 33 Industrial supplies (except di employers in Minnesota.

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove (35 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove
Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove (35 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Manufacturing Solutions of MN - Cottage Grove has fewer employees than the Industrial supplies (except disposable p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2021 3.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423840 · MN · Cottage Grove

589 Industrial supplies (except disposable plastics, paper) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 33 employers in Cottage Grove, 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 Branch 046 - MTS Schaumburg 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 202695 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OKTUL 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TXCOR 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dollymount 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Scotch Prairie Farms LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genex Farm Systems Melrose 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Dog Power Plant 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renewal by Andersen 1,281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove Site 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Up North Plastics 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Cottage Grove 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Weatherford, OK 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Wholesale Sheet Metal Inc 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pall - Pensacola 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern RMX Fleet 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Gardens of Waterford Place 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grocery Outlet 7714 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sand Hills 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Air Mechancial & Service Corp Casselberry 35 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: 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.