Residential construction, single-family, general contractors · Minnesota

Nor-Son Custom Builders

Baxter, MN · ~66 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nor-Son Custom Builders runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Residential construction, single-family, general contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Nor-Son Custom Builders: 4.9 TCR = 128% of Residential construction, single-family, general contractors BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nor-Son Custom Builders safety composite

Nor-Son Custom Builders scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nor-Son Custom Builders: 3.3 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Nor-Son Custom Builders's TCR rose 3.2 from 3.3 in 2022 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236115 · Baxter, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 128% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #5/19
  • PHOTO La Mar Construction …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~66 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: La Mar Construction LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nor-Son Custom Builders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nor-Son Custom Builders averages 4.9 TCR (128% of the Residential construction, single-family, general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Nor-Son Custom Builders TCR series: 2022=3.3 · 2023=4.8 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Nor-Son Custom Builders falls in its industry

976 Residential construction, sing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 19 Residential construction, sing employers in Minnesota.

Nor-Son Custom Builders (66 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Nor-Son Custom Builders
Nor-Son Custom Builders (66 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Nor-Son Custom Builders has more employees than the Residential construction, single-family, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 6.5 3.3 4 0 0
2023 4.8 1.6 3 0 0
2022 3.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236115 · MN · Baxter

976 Residential construction, single-family, 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 La Mar Construction LLC 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goat Construction Inc 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paul Davis Restoration of South Central Wisconsin 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR B & D Construction Co. Inc. 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mabel Canton Public Schools 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE St Paul Plumbing and Heating Co 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlas Foundation Co., LLC 66 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ingredients - DC - Cheese- Dalbo MN 66 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 UM Glendale Expansion Facility 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Americold Logistics, LLC: Henderson 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Greene Rubber Company 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Phoenix Houses of California. Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madison Distribution Center 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koweta Indian Health Facility 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE NG Schaumburg Reporting Center 66 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Poly Systems 66 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.