Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · Minnesota

Midwest Tank

Big Lake, MN · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Midwest Tank runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Midwest Tank: 5.9 TCR = 178% of Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Midwest Tank safety composite

Midwest Tank scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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 Tank: 0.0 → 11.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Midwest Tank's TCR rose 11.8 from 0.0 in 2023 to 11.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332420 · Big Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 178% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #3/7
  • PHOTO Westmor Industries
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westmor Industries (0.0 TCR gap)

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Midwest Tank in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Midwest Tank averages 5.9 TCR (178% of the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Midwest Tank TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=11.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Midwest Tank falls in its industry

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

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 7 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal employers in Minnesota.

Midwest Tank (24 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Midwest Tank
Midwest Tank (24 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Midwest Tank has fewer employees than the Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 11.8 3.9 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332420 · MN · Big Lake

355 Water tanks, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 31 employers in Big Lake, 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 Westmor Industries 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dragon Products Springer 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kennedy Tank & Mfg. Company 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Steel Corporation 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Cottonwood Dairy 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE WPI-Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Production Services - Jackson 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Repairs and Maintenance 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota Limited 849 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2031 Coborn's Big Lake 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premier Marine LLC 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR AES Arconic Big Lake 125 FTE
NAT-TCR VWGoA Los Angeles PDC 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgewater Home Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncwil - Wilkesboro 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ilfre - Freeport 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverside Community Ventures 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Craftworks 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE All American Water Restoration, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nelson Energy Center 24 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. 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.