Handle stock, sawed or planed, manufacturing · Minnesota

Nelson Wood Shims

Cohasset, MN · ~58 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nelson Wood Shims runs at 238% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Handle stock, sawed or planed, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Nelson Wood Shims: 7.8 TCR = 238% of Handle stock, sawed or planed, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nelson Wood Shims safety composite

Nelson Wood Shims scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.3

2017→2024

Nelson Wood Shims injury rate improved

Nelson Wood Shims's TCR fell 10.3 from 20.4 in 2017 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=20.4 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=6.0 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=10.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321912 · Cohasset, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 238% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO East Earl
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Earl (0.1 TCR gap)

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Nelson Wood Shims in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nelson Wood Shims averages 7.8 TCR (238% of the Handle stock, sawed or planed, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nelson Wood Shims TCR series: 2017=20.4 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=6 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=6 · 2022=6.5 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Nelson Wood Shims falls in its industry

178 Handle stock, sawed or planed, establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

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 4 Handle stock, sawed or planed, employers in Minnesota.

Nelson Wood Shims (58 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nelson Wood Shims
Nelson Wood Shims (58 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Nelson Wood Shims has more employees than the Handle stock, sawed or planed, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 10.1 8.4 6 0 0
2023 8.3 6.6 5 0 0
2022 6.5 4.8 4 0 0
2021 6.0 5.0 6 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2019 6.0 0.0 3 0 0
2018 3.6 0.0 2 0 0
2017 20.4 11.3 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321912 · MN · Cohasset

178 Handle stock, sawed or planed, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 8 employers in Cohasset, 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 East Earl 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hughes Hardwood International Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Idaho Timber of Boise 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MICHAELS - ARTISTREE - #6500 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vireo Health of MN - Otsego 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms SE Misc MN 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2101-Redwood Falls, MN (Monsanto Co.) 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Home Office 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR 19 Boswell 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDI Cohasset 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Country Power 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cohasset Elem School 33 FTE
NAT-TCR Direct Pack East 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR M & M Woodworking inc 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingwood 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Murray Logan Construction, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clackamas Rehabilitation LLC. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE 117 Arvada 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE 124 Gretna 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dayton Door Sales Inc 58 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. 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.