Employer · Minnesota

NorthStar Sheets

Cottage Grove, MN · ~80 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NorthStar Sheets runs at 211% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

NorthStar Sheets: 7.0 TCR = 211% of industry BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NorthStar Sheets safety composite

NorthStar Sheets scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−3.9

2023→2024

NorthStar Sheets injury rate improved

NorthStar Sheets's TCR fell 3.9 from 8.9 in 2023 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.9 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Cottage Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 211% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #30/30
  • PHOTO GA084 McDonough Mail…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GA084 McDonough Mailers (0.0 TCR gap)

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NorthStar Sheets in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NorthStar Sheets averages 7.0 TCR (211% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

NorthStar Sheets TCR series: 2023=8.9 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where NorthStar Sheets falls in its industry

1,338 industry establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 30 industry employers in Minnesota.

NorthStar Sheets (80 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate NorthStar Sheets
NorthStar Sheets (80 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

NorthStar Sheets has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 5.0 4.0 5 0 0
2023 8.9 5.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MN · Cottage Grove

1,338 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 33 employers in Cottage Grove, 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 GA084 McDonough Mailers 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAPP Lowell 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RDA CONTAINER CORPORATION 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kittrich Corporation 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wadena 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wysan Precast 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enclos Corp. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeville 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renewal by Andersen 1,281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove Site 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Up North Plastics 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Cottage Grove 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Arizona, LLC 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR First Choice Vending Company 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amsted Rail 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR San Angelo 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Erie Strayer Company 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peerless Oil & Chemicals Inc 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Recycling 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Viking Industries Inc 80 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. 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.