Commercial building construction general contractors · Minnesota

Nor-Son Construction

Baxter, MN · ~62 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nor-Son Construction runs at 133% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Nor-Son Construction: 3.9 TCR = 133% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nor-Son Construction safety composite

Nor-Son Construction scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−1.6

2022→2024

Nor-Son Construction injury rate improved

Nor-Son Construction's TCR fell 1.6 from 4.9 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.9 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Baxter, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 133% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #75/130
  • PHOTO Morette Company
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Morette Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nor-Son Construction in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nor-Son Construction averages 3.9 TCR (133% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Nor-Son Construction TCR series: 2022=4.9 · 2023=3.4 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 2.9

Where Nor-Son Construction falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 130 Commercial building constructi employers in Minnesota.

Nor-Son Construction (62 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Nor-Son Construction
Nor-Son Construction (62 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Nor-Son Construction has more employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2024 3.3 0.0 2 0 0
2023 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2022 4.9 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · MN · Baxter

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 48 employers in Baxter, 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 Morette Company 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CARBINE CONSTRUCTION CO, INC 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridgefield Recreation Center 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR AFS Main Office 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pipestone System Services 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sports Group 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE TerWisscha Construction, Inc 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR MNDOT District 3 431 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1654 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1654 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR BAXTER MN - 3163 220 FTE
NAT-TCR Lapham-hickey.com 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Paqco Inc 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisville KY 2 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR London 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Francisco - MCS 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Price Rite Marketplace #377 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moonachie Distribution Centre 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0709 Mentor 62 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. 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.