Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Minnesota

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes

Metal Sales/1435 Egret Ave/Detroit Lakes, MN · ~51 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes: 4.2 TCR = 128% of Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes safety composite

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes: 2.1 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.24× in 2024

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes's TCR rose 3.1 from 2.1 in 2022 to 5.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332311 · Metal Sales/1435 Egret Ave/Detroit Lakes, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 128% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #3/6
  • PHOTO WhiteFab, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WhiteFab, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes averages 4.2 TCR (128% of the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes TCR series: 2022=2.1 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes falls in its industry

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 6 Buildings, prefabricated metal employers in Minnesota.

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes (51 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes
Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes (51 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 75 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Metal Sales Mfg. Corp. - Detroit LAkes has fewer employees than the Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2023 5.2 3.5 3 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332311 · MN · Metal Sales/1435 Egret Ave/Detroit Lakes

393 Buildings, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 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 WhiteFab, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wittrock 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Building Systems, Inc. 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAR Mobility Cadillac 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Union Dairy LLP 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE ON 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wes Hanson Builders 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis Office 51 FTE
NAT-TCR Hawkeye Ready Mix Hiawatha 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 3617 - EAN Holdings, LLC Hawaii Division 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Health & Rehab 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Little Nell Hotel 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ama-Ground Ops 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Carmel Medical Group - Pickerington 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hrl-Ground Ops 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lit-Ground Ops 51 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. 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.