Low voltage electrical work · Minnesota

R & K Electric, Inc.

Owatonna, MN · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R & K Electric, Inc. runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Low voltage electrical work workplace, earning a grade D.

R & K Electric, Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 178% of Low voltage electrical work BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R & K Electric, Inc. safety composite

R & K Electric, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

R & K Electric, Inc.: 4.3 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.42× in 2020

R & K Electric, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.7 from 4.3 in 2016 to 12.0 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 12.0 DART
  • RANK #77/100
  • PHOTO Kenny Strange Electr…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kenny Strange Electric And Service Co. Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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R & K Electric, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R & K Electric, Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (178% of the Low voltage electrical work BLS benchmark).

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

R & K Electric, Inc. TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=12 · BLS 2.8

Where R & K Electric, Inc. falls in its industry

4,550 Low voltage electrical work establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 100 Low voltage electrical work employers in Minnesota.

R & K Electric, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate R & K Electric, Inc.
R & K Electric, Inc. (26 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

R & K Electric, Inc. has fewer employees than the Low voltage electrical work median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 12.0 12.0 1 2 0
2019 8.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · MN · Owatonna

4,550 Low voltage electrical work employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, 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 Kenny Strange Electric And Service Co. Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glo Electric LLC 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daniel Electric 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merit Electric of Spokane, INC Spokane Office 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Becker 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Silverstreak Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Huiras MN 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Egg 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Iroquois Memorial Hospital 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NGA West 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Andersons Clymers Ethanol LLC 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Recycling Industries Inc 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 33 - Fairmont 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Triangle Services - Dayton Area 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Werner Electric Supply - Madison 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Binswanger Glass Branch 083 26 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.