Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis · Minnesota

Midwest fire inc.

Luverne, MN · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest fire inc. runs at 352% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis workplace, earning a grade F.

Midwest fire inc.: 11.6 TCR = 352% of Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest fire inc. safety composite

Midwest fire inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Midwest fire inc.: 9.2 → 21.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 21.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2019

Midwest fire inc.'s TCR rose 12.4 from 9.2 in 2017 to 21.6 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Luverne, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.6 · 352% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #8/10
  • PHOTO Matthews Specialty V…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Matthews Specialty Vehicles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest fire inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest fire inc. averages 11.6 TCR (352% of the Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest fire inc. TCR series: 2017=9.2 · 2018=4.1 · 2019=21.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Midwest fire inc. falls in its industry

470 Special purpose highway vehicl establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 10 Special purpose highway vehicl employers in Minnesota.

Midwest fire inc. (23 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest fire inc.
Midwest fire inc. (23 employees, TCR 11.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

Midwest fire inc. has fewer employees than the Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., f median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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
2019 21.6 4.3 4 1 0
2018 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2017 9.2 4.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · MN · Luverne

470 Special purpose highway vehicle (e.g., firefighting vehicles) assembling on purchased chassis employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 21 employers in Luverne, 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 Matthews Specialty Vehicles 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR US TRUCK BODY/MIDWEST 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morgan Truck Body LLC MPA 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truck Cab Manufacturers 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Brooten 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Alpha Foods, LLP 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNHT-SEL-HIGHWAY 12' 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fergus Falls CSC 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN,Luverne-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN,LUVERNE - Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota Veterans Home-Luverne 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luverne Middle/High School 158 FTE
NAT-TCR Innocor Foam Technologies Newburyport, LLC - Newburyport 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aim Integrated Logistics Inc. Joshen Paper Cleveland 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (RLSA-6421) 11.6 TCR
NAT-TCR North Haven (Ctnor) 11.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutter Outpatient Services, LLC (600-19) 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Outpatient Services, LLC (600-26) 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Torrance Rlc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE 053595-Hbc-Beach Center Sta 23 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, 2017. 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.