Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade · Minnesota

Preferred Powder Coating

Elk River, MN · ~57 workers · 7 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

Preferred Powder Coating runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade F.

Preferred Powder Coating: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Preferred Powder Coating safety composite

Preferred Powder Coating scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

−2.9

2018→2024

Preferred Powder Coating injury rate improved

Preferred Powder Coating's TCR fell 2.9 from 10.3 in 2018 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.3 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Elk River, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #10/14
  • PHOTO Holscher Products Inc
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holscher Products Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Preferred Powder Coating in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Preferred Powder Coating averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Preferred Powder Coating TCR series: 2018=10.3 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=5.7 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Preferred Powder Coating falls in its industry

646 Aluminum coating of metal prod establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 14 Aluminum coating of metal prod employers in Minnesota.

Preferred Powder Coating (57 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Preferred Powder Coating
Preferred Powder Coating (57 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Preferred Powder Coating has fewer employees than the Aluminum coating of metal products for t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 7.4 3.0 5 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 2 0 0
2022 8.4 3.4 5 0 0
2021 5.7 5.7 3 0 0
2020 5.2 1.7 3 0 0
2019 7.2 4.3 5 0 0
2018 10.3 8.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · MN · Elk River

646 Aluminum coating of metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 102 employers in Elk River, 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 Holscher Products Inc 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AZZ CGR (Catoosa) 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beaver Dam East 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Attala Steel Industries 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwest Maintenance & Mechanical, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCC-Blaine 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Shore Track Services 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aid Electric Corporation 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3209 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherburne County Government Center - General 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3209 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherburne County Government Center 367 FTE
NAT-TCR G&M Distributors 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Enterprise Enid Plant 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hospice & Palliative Care Palmetto Region- Fort Mill 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Franciscan Health Crawfordsville 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE PNC Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Home Office 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitsubishi Electric US Inc.-13 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roseville 57 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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.