Synthetic rubber (i.e., vulcanizable elastomers) manufacturing · Minnesota

Polytek - South St. Paul

South St. Paul, MN · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Polytek - South St. Paul runs at 39% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Synthetic rubber (i.e., vulcanizable elastomers) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Polytek - South St. Paul: 1.3 TCR = 39% of Synthetic rubber (i.e., vulcanizable elastomers) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Polytek - South St. Paul safety composite

Polytek - South St. Paul scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.6

2023→2024

Polytek - South St. Paul injury rate improved

Polytek - South St. Paul's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.6 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325212 · South St. Paul, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.3 · 39% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P74
  • PHOTO Trexler
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trexler (0.0 TCR gap)

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Polytek - South St. Paul in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Polytek - South St. Paul averages 1.3 TCR (39% of the Synthetic rubber (i.e., vulcanizable elastomers) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Polytek - South St. Paul TCR series: 2023=2.6 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Polytek - South St. Paul falls in its industry

90 Synthetic rubber (i.e., vulcan establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Polytek - South St. Paul (40 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 Polytek - South St. Paul
Polytek - South St. Paul (40 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 85 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Polytek - South St. Paul has fewer employees than the Synthetic rubber (i.e., vulcanizable ela median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.6 2.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325212 · MN · South St. Paul

90 Synthetic rubber (i.e., vulcanizable elastomers) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 16 employers in South St. Paul, 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 Trexler 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NuSil Technology 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lion Elastomers Orange 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lion Copolymer Geismar, LLC 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE FDML TW Shop - SE 0010 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sleepy Eye Feedmill 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forsman Farms HL 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perham Breeders 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR South St. Paul Campus 530 FTE
CITY-NEAR Care Center 212 FTE
CITY-NEAR RSS - South St. Paul 183 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schadegg Mechanical, Inc. 179 FTE
NAT-TCR Wm. Winkler Company 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Georgia 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jordan Oaks 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mees Distributors Inc 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE CFC Print Solutions, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warwood Armature Repair Company 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denver Metro Electric Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE BIC Construction 40 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.

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