Drywall contractors · Minnesota

Palmer Soderberg, Inc.

Name: Palmer Soderberg, Inc. Workplace Safety Data
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Rochester, MN · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 8.2
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Palmer Soderberg, Inc. runs at 293% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Palmer Soderberg, Inc.: 8.2 TCR = 293% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palmer Soderberg, Inc. safety composite

Palmer Soderberg, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 8.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Palmer Soderberg, Inc.: 4.0 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2023

Palmer Soderberg, Inc.'s TCR rose 8.8 from 4.0 in 2017 to 12.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Rochester, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 293% of ind

DART 4.3 DART
RANK #21/34
PHOTO Hoffman Specialty Co…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 21 inj
SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hoffman Specialty Contracting Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Palmer Soderberg, Inc. averages 8.2 TCR (293% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

Palmer Soderberg, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=12.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Palmer Soderberg, Inc. falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 34 Drywall contractors employers in Minnesota.

Palmer Soderberg, Inc. (86 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Palmer Soderberg, Inc. has more employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2023	12.8	4.3	12
2022	7.8	2.6	6
2017	4.0	0.0	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · MN · Rochester

1,613 Drywall contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Hoffman Specialty Contracting Inc.	PORTLAND, OR	8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Specialty Construction Services LLC	POST FALLS, ID	8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Unified Insulation Systems, LLC	AKRON, OH	8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PIC, INC	DES MOINES, IA	8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	34 RECC	DULUTH	86 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tri-State Drilling	PLYMOUTH	86 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc.	SAVAGE	86 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dalbo, MN	DALBO	86 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mayo Clinic Rochester	Rochester	38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Olmsted County	Rochester	1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC	Rochester	1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR	FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS	Rochester	823 FTE
NAT-TCR	Va Terminal	Mount Sidney, VA	8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Regal Steel Co.	Warren, MI	8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Walker Hotel Greenwich Village	New York, NY	8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bismarck Nd	Mandan, ND	8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Micromatic LLC	Berne, IN	86 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Harold Import Company	Lakewood, NJ	86 FTE
NAT-SIZE	LiveGreen, Inc.	Raleigh, NC	86 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Quality Janitorial Group	Asheville, NC	86 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: 2023, 2022, 2017. 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.