Gravel hauling, local · Minnesota

Metro Gravel- Elk River

Elk River, MN · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Gravel- Elk River runs at 388% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Gravel hauling, local workplace, earning a grade F.

Metro Gravel- Elk River: 17.5 TCR = 388% of Gravel hauling, local BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Gravel- Elk River safety composite

Metro Gravel- Elk River scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Metro Gravel- Elk River: 13.8 → 21.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 21.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.21× in 2019

Metro Gravel- Elk River's TCR rose 7.4 from 13.8 in 2018 to 21.2 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484220 · Elk River, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.5 · 388% of ind

  • DART 21.2 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Star Transportation
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Star Transportation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metro Gravel- Elk River in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Gravel- Elk River averages 17.5 TCR (388% of the Gravel hauling, local BLS benchmark).

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

Metro Gravel- Elk River TCR series: 2018=13.8 · 2019=21.2 · BLS 4.5

Where Metro Gravel- Elk River falls in its industry

1,130 Gravel hauling, local establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Gravel hauling, local employers in Minnesota.

Metro Gravel- Elk River (25 employees, TCR 17.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Metro Gravel- Elk River
Metro Gravel- Elk River (25 employees, TCR 17.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Metro Gravel- Elk River has fewer employees than the Gravel hauling, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2019 21.2 21.2 3 0 0
2018 13.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484220 · MN · Elk River

1,130 Gravel hauling, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 102 employers in Elk River, 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 Star Transportation 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR P L Weaver & Company 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Karvo Trucking 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burlington (Bordentow-Hedding Road) 18.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Hutchinson, MN 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park Rapids Trucking 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3209 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherburne County Government Center - General 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3209 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherburne County Government Center 367 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Anaheim, Fire Station #8 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Crestview THS LLC 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Kinney SLO 17.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Kindred Place at Harrisburg 17.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clegg's Pest Control - Greenville 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE OFFICE 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE DAC Products, Inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midland Power 25 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: 2019, 2018. 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.