Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers · Minnesota

Northern States Supply - Willmar

Willmar, MN · ~48 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern States Supply - Willmar runs at 354% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Northern States Supply - Willmar: 7.8 TCR = 354% of Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern States Supply - Willmar safety composite

Northern States Supply - Willmar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Northern States Supply - Willmar: 5.9 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2022

Northern States Supply - Willmar's TCR rose 3.8 from 5.9 in 2021 to 9.7 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Willmar, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 354% of ind

  • DART 7.3 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO House Hasson Hardwar…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: House Hasson Hardware Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern States Supply - Willmar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern States Supply - Willmar averages 7.8 TCR (354% of the Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Northern States Supply - Willmar TCR series: 2021=5.9 · 2022=9.7 · BLS 2.2

Where Northern States Supply - Willmar falls in its industry

449 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

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 7 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, employers in Minnesota.

Northern States Supply - Willmar (48 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern States Supply - Willmar
Northern States Supply - Willmar (48 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Northern States Supply - Willmar has fewer employees than the Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, sc median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022 9.7 7.3 4 0 0
2021 5.9 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · MN · Willmar

449 Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts, rivets, screws) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 154 employers in Willmar, 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 House Hasson Hardware Company 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-4500 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4511 LOWE S MSH-COLUMBUS OH 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-4515 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waukon 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Swenoda 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Region Cooperative - SE Agronomy East/BCA/Shop 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2101-Redwood Falls, MN 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Willmar Avenue Plant 1,205 FTE
CITY-NEAR Willmar Ave Plant 1,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carris Health Rice Hospital 848 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Rice Memorial Hospital 742 FTE
NAT-TCR HG564 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0005-0004-00804 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 9976 Central Fill Pharmacy Wh 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 1855-TNNAS24 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG1052 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG202 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center South - EVS 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monterey Hospice 48 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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.