Machine shops · Minnesota

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park

Brooklyn Park, MN · ~222 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade B.

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park safety composite

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park: 1.4 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2021

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park's TCR rose 2.0 from 1.4 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Brooklyn Park, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #29/92
  • PHOTO Northern Engineering…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northern Engineering Co. LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Protolabs - Brooklyn Park in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Protolabs - Brooklyn Park averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park TCR series: 2019=1.4 · 2021=3.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Protolabs - Brooklyn Park falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #29 safest of 92 Machine shops employers in Minnesota.

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park (222 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Protolabs - Brooklyn Park
Protolabs - Brooklyn Park (222 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Protolabs - Brooklyn Park has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower 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
2021 3.5 2.6 7 1 0
2019 1.4 0.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MN · Brooklyn Park

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 226 employers in Brooklyn Park, 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 Northern Engineering Co. LLC 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kwalyti Tooling 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concept Machine & Tool Inc 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Machinery Maintenance, Inc 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carl Bolander & Sons Co. 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0260 - St Louis Park 222 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6284-YR-347 YT 222 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0591 - Target Northern Campus 5,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMRG 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Retail Merchandising Services 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Egan Company 962 FTE
NAT-TCR DEN Denver - 3100 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Jorban-Riscoe Associates, Inc. - Lenexa 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Metal Sales MC - Temple 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hunter Modular Construction Company Inc 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pittsburgh Mercy Health System 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tailored Shared Services #5013 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carthage Warehouse 222 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meijer118 222 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: 2021, 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.