Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing · Minnesota

Plant 4- Lake Air

New Hope, MN · ~76 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plant 4- Lake Air runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Plant 4- Lake Air: 6.7 TCR = 204% of Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plant 4- Lake Air safety composite

Plant 4- Lake Air scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% 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

Plant 4- Lake Air: 5.2 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2024

Plant 4- Lake Air's TCR rose 3.2 from 5.2 in 2019 to 8.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · New Hope, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 204% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Wastequip Albany
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wastequip Albany (0.1 TCR gap)

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Plant 4- Lake Air in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plant 4- Lake Air averages 6.7 TCR (204% of the Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plant 4- Lake Air TCR series: 2019=5.2 · 2020=7.2 · 2021=7 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=6.8 · 2024=8.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Plant 4- Lake Air falls in its industry

175 Containers, light gauge metal establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Containers, light gauge metal employers in Minnesota.

Plant 4- Lake Air (76 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Plant 4- Lake Air
Plant 4- Lake Air (76 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Plant 4- Lake Air has more employees than the Containers, light gauge metal (except ca median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 8.4 1.4 6 0 0
2023 6.8 1.1 4 2 0
2022 5.8 0.0 3 2 0
2021 7.0 7.0 6 0 0
2020 7.2 7.2 5 1 0
2019 5.2 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · MN · New Hope

175 Containers, light gauge metal (except cans), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 95 employers in New Hope, 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 Wastequip Albany 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Mountain Technologies 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milbank Manufacturing - Concordia 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brock Grain Systems - KC 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Twin City Framers 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fireside Hearth n Home Roseville 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schoenfelder Renovations 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridley Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Therese of New Hope 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Horwitz, Inc 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Hope - Main Store 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Education Center 237 FTE
NAT-TCR Kfc 8 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 502801 Livermore Warehouse 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 10251 Post Oak 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Canton Distributors 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dakota Carriers, Inc 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pfister Bulk Transport 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Landmark of Collins 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Champagne Metals - Glenpool 76 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.