Machine shops · Minnesota

Protofab Engineering

Blaine, MN · ~63 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Protofab Engineering runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Protofab Engineering: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Protofab Engineering safety composite

Protofab Engineering scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−4.5

2018→2024

Protofab Engineering injury rate improved

Protofab Engineering's TCR fell 4.5 from 6.0 in 2018 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.0 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=6.0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Blaine, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #56/92
  • PHOTO Main Location
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Main Location (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Minnesota employers → · Look up another →

Protofab Engineering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Protofab Engineering averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Protofab Engineering TCR series: 2018=6 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=6 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Protofab Engineering falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 92 Machine shops employers in Minnesota.

Protofab Engineering (63 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Protofab Engineering
Protofab Engineering (63 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Protofab Engineering has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 3.1 0.0 2 0 0
2022 6.0 3.0 4 0 0
2021 7.8 1.6 5 0 0
2020 7.4 0.0 4 0 0
2019 7.3 0.0 4 0 0
2018 6.0 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MN · Blaine

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 163 employers in Blaine, 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 Main Location 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR JM Conveyors of PA 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Laser Masters Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grain Belt Supply Company Inc 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Riverview 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeborn Mower Cooperative Services 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE BELTRAMI ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steenberg Watrud Construction LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Estee Lauder - Blaine 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR Infinite Campus, Inc. 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1832 - Blaine 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3498 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Allstar Glass Company 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR South Bay Welding 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SCC003 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR John Wheeler Logging, Inc. 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Libraries 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridges by Epoch at Westford 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Charleston Terminal 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sampson Construction - Papillion, NE 63 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.