Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Minnesota

Northfield Automotive Inc

Northfield, MN · ~41 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northfield Automotive Inc runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade D.

Northfield Automotive Inc: 5.1 TCR = 151% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northfield Automotive Inc safety composite

Northfield Automotive Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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%).

Northfield Automotive Inc held a steady TCR band

Northfield Automotive Inc's TCR held near 0.3 from 3.4 in 2021 to 3.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=3.4 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Northfield, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 151% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #159/240
  • PHOTO Tom Bush Motors, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tom Bush Motors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northfield Automotive Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northfield Automotive Inc averages 5.1 TCR (151% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Northfield Automotive Inc TCR series: 2021=3.4 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=3.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Northfield Automotive Inc falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #159 safest of 240 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Minnesota.

Northfield Automotive Inc (41 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northfield Automotive Inc
Northfield Automotive Inc (41 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Northfield Automotive Inc has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2023 10.2 3.4 3 0 0
2022 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2021 3.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · MN · Northfield

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 66 employers in Northfield, 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 Tom Bush Motors, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2079 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR River Front Chrysler-Plymouth Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carter Chevrolet Agency LLC 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Farming 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Feedmill TW Shop - SE 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hobbs Brigade Energy Services 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wild Rice Electric Cooperative, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Olaf College 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carleton College 1,598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Mill Northfield MN 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northfield Hospital + Clinics- Campus 620 FTE
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 070 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Goldfinch Brothers, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Creekside Pines 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Sales and Manufacturing Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hamilton Tanks LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oklahoma Shirt Company 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samscreen, Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Saws International, Inc. 41 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.