Freight Trucking LTL · Minnesota

Ow Owatonna

Owatonna, MN · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ow Owatonna runs at 279% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freight Trucking LTL workplace, earning a grade F.

Ow Owatonna: 12.6 TCR = 279% of Freight Trucking LTL BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ow Owatonna safety composite

Ow Owatonna scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% 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).

D

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−11.4

2016→2018

Ow Owatonna injury rate improved

Ow Owatonna's TCR fell 11.4 from 18.3 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 18.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=18.3 · 2018=6.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484122 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 279% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #43/46
  • PHOTO ABF Freight 184
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ABF Freight 184 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ow Owatonna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ow Owatonna averages 12.6 TCR (279% of the Freight Trucking LTL BLS benchmark).

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

Ow Owatonna TCR series: 2016=18.3 · 2018=6.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Ow Owatonna falls in its industry

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #43 safest of 46 Freight Trucking LTL employers in Minnesota.

Ow Owatonna (44 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ow Owatonna
Ow Owatonna (44 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 5.6

Ow Owatonna has fewer employees than the Freight Trucking LTL median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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
2018 6.9 2.3 3 0 0
2016 18.3 11.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484122 · MN · Owatonna

3,020 Freight Trucking LTL employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, 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 ABF Freight 184 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 256 ROCHESTER 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR OH-Austintown-Field Office 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 411 ATLANTA SOUTH 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE West River 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monticello Training Ctr-LL 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment Facility 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WasteWater Treatment Facility 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Terminix Service, Inc. Columbia NE 61- 27 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Terminix Service, Inc. Bluffton 62- 24 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CCP - Cardinal Commercial Products 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Wimsatt Building Materials - Grand Rapids 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aqua Illinois, Inc. - Kankakee 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE SDB Engineers and Constructors 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aqua Services, Inc. - Cary 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Bell PA 44 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.