Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Minnesota

NorthStar Ford

Duluth, MN · ~103 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NorthStar Ford runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade D.

NorthStar Ford: 5.3 TCR = 156% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NorthStar Ford safety composite

NorthStar Ford scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

−3.2

2017→2020

NorthStar Ford injury rate improved

NorthStar Ford's TCR fell 3.2 from 6.3 in 2017 to 3.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.3 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 156% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #164/240
  • PHOTO APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS MANAGEMENT INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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NorthStar Ford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NorthStar Ford averages 5.3 TCR (156% 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

NorthStar Ford TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=3 · BLS 3.4

Where NorthStar Ford falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 22% 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 #164 safest of 240 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Minnesota.

NorthStar Ford (103 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 NorthStar Ford
NorthStar Ford (103 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

NorthStar Ford has more 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
2020 3.0 1.0 3 0 0
2019 6.2 5.3 7 0 0
2018 5.7 1.9 6 0 0
2017 6.3 6.3 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · MN · Duluth

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 · 340 employers in Duluth, 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 APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS MANAGEMENT INC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fury Stillwater 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2510 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burnsville Volkswagen Inc. 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ulland Brothers, Inc. 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE AVAOP, LLC 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE MGK-HQ 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twin City EDM 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Duluth 1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR Rootstown GAMCO 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 827 East 92nd St 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR New Reynolds Electric Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lansing, IL 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gibson Electric Membership Corporation 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willacoochee Industrial Fabrics 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Distribution Center 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bowen Industrial Contractors 103 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.