Plastics working machinery manufacturing · Minnesota

NU

New Ulm, MN · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NU runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Plastics working machinery manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

NU: 5.2 TCR = 158% of Plastics working machinery manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NU safety composite

NU scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

NU: 1.3 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.3× in 2021

NU's TCR rose 3.4 from 1.3 in 2018 to 4.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · New Ulm, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #18/23
  • PHOTO Marvel Manufacturing…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marvel Manufacturing Company, Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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NU in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NU averages 5.2 TCR (158% of the Plastics working machinery manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

NU TCR series: 2018=1.3 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where NU falls in its industry

448 Plastics working machinery man establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 23 Plastics working machinery man employers in Minnesota.

NU (67 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate NU
NU (67 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

NU has fewer employees than the Plastics working machinery manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2021 4.7 1.6 3 0 0
2020 8.5 5.1 4 1 0
2019 6.4 3.2 6 0 0
2018 1.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · MN · New Ulm

448 Plastics working machinery manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 79 employers in New Ulm, 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 Marvel Manufacturing Company, Inc. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canton, NC 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Afinitas- Columbus Location 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR EASTMAN MACHINE COMPANY 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MOORHEAD PUBLIC SERVICE 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 505 Nicollet MNN3 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE SMA, LLC 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 102809 - Moosejaw 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc. 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm Medical Center 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martin Luther College 441 FTE
NAT-TCR Danville, IL Rail Shop 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Primay Beef - Schuyler Location 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR C'ville Yoghurt 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Vecellio & Grogan, Inc._Job # 1003000 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Victory Trucking and Supply Inc. 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lexington Clinic Marketing/Human Resources 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE HGAKB01 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE HeatTek, Inc 67 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.