Telecommunications carriers, wired · Minnesota

New Ulm Nuvera

New Ulm, MN · ~86 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Ulm Nuvera runs at 904% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

New Ulm Nuvera: 6.3 TCR = 904% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Ulm Nuvera safety composite

New Ulm Nuvera scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−2.5

2019→2021

New Ulm Nuvera injury rate improved

New Ulm Nuvera's TCR fell 2.5 from 7.6 in 2019 to 5.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.6 · 2021=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · New Ulm, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 904% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #8/12
  • PHOTO Liberty Aguadilla
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Liberty Aguadilla (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Ulm Nuvera in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Ulm Nuvera averages 6.3 TCR (904% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

New Ulm Nuvera TCR series: 2019=7.6 · 2021=5.1 · BLS 0.7

Where New Ulm Nuvera falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 12 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Minnesota.

New Ulm Nuvera (86 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 01,0002,0003,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate New Ulm Nuvera
New Ulm Nuvera (86 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

New Ulm Nuvera has fewer employees than the Telecommunications carriers, wired median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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 5.1 1.3 4 0 0
2019 7.6 1.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · MN · New Ulm

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 79 employers in New Ulm, 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 Liberty Aguadilla 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thacker-Grigsby Telephone Company, Inc. 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chanhassen MN Site 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grande Communications Networks, LLC-Odessa 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE 34 RECC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmer Soderberg, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Drilling 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc. 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc. 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm Medical Center 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martin Luther College 441 FTE
NAT-TCR Laclede Chain Maryville 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Atriums 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR American Furniture Rental-San Fran 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Greco & Haines, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Culpeper 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland Casting Plant 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bwc Corporate 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Comarco 86 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, 2019. 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.