Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing · Nebraska

Minden Machine Shop, Inc

Minden, NE · ~55 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Minden Machine Shop, Inc runs at 327% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Minden Machine Shop, Inc: 10.8 TCR = 327% of Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Minden Machine Shop, Inc safety composite

Minden Machine Shop, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Minden Machine Shop, Inc: 13.9 → 18.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Minden Machine Shop, Inc's TCR rose 4.2 from 13.9 in 2016 to 18.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333111 · Minden, NE ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 327% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #23/24
  • PHOTO Nelson Mfg. shop
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nelson Mfg. shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Minden Machine Shop, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Minden Machine Shop, Inc averages 10.8 TCR (327% of the Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Minden Machine Shop, Inc TCR series: 2016=13.9 · 2017=10.1 · 2018=14.4 · 2019=8.4 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=10.5 · 2023=10 · 2024=18.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Minden Machine Shop, Inc falls in its industry

433 Cattle feeding and watering eq establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Nebraska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 24 Cattle feeding and watering eq employers in Nebraska.

Minden Machine Shop, Inc (55 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Minden Machine Shop, Inc
Minden Machine Shop, Inc (55 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Minden Machine Shop, Inc has fewer employees than the Cattle feeding and watering equipment ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 18.1 6.6 11 0 0
2023 10.0 8.3 6 0 0
2022 10.5 6.0 7 0 0
2021 7.5 5.6 4 0 0
2020 4.4 2.2 2 0 0
2019 8.4 8.4 4 0 0
2018 14.4 8.2 7 0 0
2017 10.1 4.0 5 0 0
2016 13.9 13.9 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333111 · NE · Minden

433 Cattle feeding and watering equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,594 rated employers in Nebraska with headcount on file · 7 employers in Minden, NE · 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 Nelson Mfg. shop 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shamrock Orchards, LLC 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LMC-Ag, LLC 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Loftness Specialized Farm Equipment, Inc. 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wakefield Farms LLP 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE LDC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Groundworks Omaha 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE IES Commercial, Inc. - Utility Group 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal Engineered Composites 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kearney County Health Services 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR KAAPA Ethanol, LLC 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR FORT KEARNY CONSOLIDATED 33 FTE
NAT-TCR IKEA #145 Orlando 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Suburban Steel Supply, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta SE - 20 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Crusher Company - Bucyrus 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Champion Feeders 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yard Truck Specialists 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empire Truck Sales - Mobile 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kerr Lakeside Inc. 55 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.