Employer · Minnesota

MN-Owatonna-Viracon

Owatonna, MN · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MN-Owatonna-Viracon runs at 84% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical industry workplace, earning a grade C.

MN-Owatonna-Viracon: 3.8 TCR = 84% of industry BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MN-Owatonna-Viracon safety composite

MN-Owatonna-Viracon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

MN-Owatonna-Viracon: 2.4 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.35× in 2018

MN-Owatonna-Viracon's TCR rose 2.7 from 2.4 in 2017 to 5.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484121 · Owatonna, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 84% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #34/74
  • PHOTO Bison Transport USA …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bison Transport USA - Des Moines (0.0 TCR gap)

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MN-Owatonna-Viracon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MN-Owatonna-Viracon averages 3.8 TCR (84% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

MN-Owatonna-Viracon TCR series: 2017=2.4 · 2018=5.1 · BLS 4.5

Where MN-Owatonna-Viracon falls in its industry

3,252 industry establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 74 industry employers in Minnesota.

MN-Owatonna-Viracon (34 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate MN-Owatonna-Viracon
MN-Owatonna-Viracon (34 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 3.0

MN-Owatonna-Viracon has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2018 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2017 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484121 · MN · Owatonna

3,252 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, 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 Bison Transport USA - Des Moines 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MT001 - MT-Missoula-Field Office 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calex Express Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 7813 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE KBQ, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forsman Farms SH 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klaphake Feed Mill Inc. 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Blue Valley Hospital 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 2030 Smucker J. M. Co. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Comfort 1 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisville (Kyebp) 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bodycote Thermal Processing Inc. - Covington 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elderberry Square Community 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vero Beach Office 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Oklahoma Thunder 34 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: 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.