Footwear manufacturing · Minnesota

Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2

Red Wing, MN · ~418 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Footwear manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2: 7.5 TCR = 226% of Footwear manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 safety composite

Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2: 5.6 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2023

Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2's TCR rose 3.8 from 5.6 in 2020 to 9.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 316210 · Red Wing, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 226% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK P15
  • PHOTO Original Footwear Ma…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 54 inj
  • SIZE ~418 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 averages 7.5 TCR (226% of the Footwear manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 TCR series: 2020=5.6 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=9.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 falls in its industry

62 Footwear manufacturing establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 (418 employees, TCR 7.5) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 29 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2
Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 (418 employees, TCR 7.5) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Red Wing Shoe Co. - Plant 2 has more employees than the Footwear manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 9.3 4.0 19 16 0
2022 7.5 6.5 27 2 0
2020 5.6 3.5 8 11 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

316210 · MN · Red Wing

62 Footwear manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 68 employers in Red Wing, 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 Original Footwear Manufacturing BR Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McRae Industries Footwear Finishing / Shipping 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norway 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lewiston MFG 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nilfisk 418 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. David's Center for Child and Family Development 418 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sherburne County Government Center - General 418 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metro Transit East Metro Garage 417 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Red Wing 606 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Wing Sala 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Red Wing, MN 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3534 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1590 SAVANNAH, GA 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Check-Mate Manufacturing 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Carrier Vibrating Equipment Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Builders Fence Co., Inc. Sun Valley Weld Shop 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Information Services 418 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #88 418 FTE
NAT-SIZE CR Employment, Inc (Lenox) 418 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mead Johnson Nutrition 418 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: 2023, 2022, 2020. 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.