Tapes (e.g., adding machine, calculator, cash register) made from purchased paper · Minnesota

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach

W. St.Paul, MN · ~27 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Tapes (e.g., adding machine, calculator, cash register) made from purchased paper workplace, earning a grade C.

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach: 3.9 TCR = 117% of Tapes (e.g., adding machine, calculator, cash register) made from purchased paper BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach safety composite

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach: 0.0 → 11.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2021

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach's TCR rose 11.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 11.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322230 · W. St.Paul, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.9 · 117% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Forest Envelope
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Forest Envelope (0.1 TCR gap)

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National Checking Co. - Lothenbach in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National Checking Co. - Lothenbach averages 3.9 TCR (117% of the Tapes (e.g., adding machine, calculator, cash register) made from purchased paper BLS benchmark).

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

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=4 · 2021=11.5 · BLS 3.3

Where National Checking Co. - Lothenbach falls in its industry

122 Tapes (e.g., adding machine, c establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Tapes (e.g., adding machine, c employers in Minnesota.

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach (27 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 National Checking Co. - Lothenbach
National Checking Co. - Lothenbach (27 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 2.6

National Checking Co. - Lothenbach has fewer employees than the Tapes (e.g., adding machine, calculator, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2021 11.5 7.7 3 0 0
2020 4.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322230 · MN · W. St.Paul

122 Tapes (e.g., adding machine, calculator, cash register) made from purchased paper employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 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 Forest Envelope 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 09 - MKS 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 06 - FW 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisiana Association for the Blind - Copy Paper Division 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Featherstone Fruits and Vegetables LLC. 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forest City Feedmill 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms PAP MN 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2011-Stanton, MN 27 FTE
NAT-TCR Ahlstrom-Munksjo Nonwovens LLC 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mount Vernon Headquarters 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kem Krest - Brighton Bldg B 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR I-74 Viaduct - Moline - 141701 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Penn Pallet Inc - Woodland 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Metal Stampings, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baxter Burial Vault Service 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ralls County Electric Cooperative 27 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.