Air-conditioning equipment (except motor vehicle) manufacturing · Minnesota

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc.

Bloomington, MN · ~132 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Air-conditioning equipment (except motor vehicle) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc.: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Air-conditioning equipment (except motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. safety composite

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc.: 3.0 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2024

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.7 from 3.0 in 2017 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333415 · Bloomington, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #11/22
  • PHOTO Elkay Plumbing Produ…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elkay Plumbing Products Company Savanna (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Air-conditioning equipment (except motor vehicle) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. TCR series: 2017=3 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. falls in its industry

461 Air-conditioning equipment (ex establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 22 Air-conditioning equipment (ex employers in Minnesota.

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. (132 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc.
Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. (132 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Ritchie Engineering Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Air-conditioning equipment (except motor median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 3.7 3.7 5 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 3.3 3.3 4 0 0
2019 4.0 2.4 5 0 0
2018 3.5 1.8 4 0 0
2017 3.0 1.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333415 · MN · Bloomington

461 Air-conditioning equipment (except motor vehicle) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 306 employers in Bloomington, 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 Elkay Plumbing Products Company Savanna 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marvair 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial HVAC Americas : MFG-Pueblo, CO-USA 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Manufacturing 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lake Country Power 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Office 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hamernick Decorating Center 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0081 BLOOMINGTON 8170 BLDG 2,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR HP - 8170 2,277 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bloomington/Normandale 1,474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Donaldson Company Inc. 1,390 FTE
NAT-TCR Groot South 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Care One at Northampton 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR BorgWarner Ithaca LLC 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Alpine Landscapes 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monterey Embassy Suites 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sacramento Holiday Inn 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Milwaukee 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Honolulu 132 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, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.