Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel · Minnesota

Mustad- St. Croix Forge

Forest Lake, MN · ~64 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mustad- St. Croix Forge runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Mustad- St. Croix Forge: 9.6 TCR = 292% of Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mustad- St. Croix Forge safety composite

Mustad- St. Croix Forge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Mustad- St. Croix Forge: 8.2 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

Mustad- St. Croix Forge's TCR rose 2.8 from 8.2 in 2023 to 11.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Forest Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 292% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO Kropp Forge
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kropp Forge (0.1 TCR gap)

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Mustad- St. Croix Forge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mustad- St. Croix Forge averages 9.6 TCR (292% of the Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

Mustad- St. Croix Forge TCR series: 2023=8.2 · 2024=11 · BLS 3.3

Where Mustad- St. Croix Forge falls in its industry

241 Horseshoes, ferrous forged, ma establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Horseshoes, ferrous forged, ma employers in Minnesota.

Mustad- St. Croix Forge (64 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Mustad- St. Croix Forge
Mustad- St. Croix Forge (64 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Mustad- St. Croix Forge has fewer employees than the Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from pu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2024 11.0 11.0 8 0 0
2023 8.2 6.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · MN · Forest Lake

241 Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 71 employers in Forest 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 Kropp Forge 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ESM Elmira Stamping & Manufacturing Corp. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR TFO TECH CO., LTD. 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Haven Steel Products 9.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE PILGRIMS PRIDE HATCHERIES 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Grace Construction, Inc. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest Lake YMCA 1,477 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2274 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2274 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinco, Inc. 288 FTE
NAT-TCR Brookdale North Richland Hills 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco Chicago 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S.J. Distributors LLC-Stockton Warehouse 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midas Trucking 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE HIX Corporation 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Energy Savers of Georgia and Alabama,LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Equipment Corporation 64 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.