Belt conveyor systems manufacturing · Minnesota

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc.

Lester Prairie, MN · ~32 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. runs at 645% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Belt conveyor systems manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc.: 21.3 TCR = 645% of Belt conveyor systems manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. safety composite

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 29.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc.: 0.0 → 46.9 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 46.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2021

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc.'s TCR rose 46.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 46.9 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333922 · Lester Prairie, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.3 · 645% of ind

  • DART 29.3 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Marine City
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Marine City (3.1 TCR gap)

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RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. averages 21.3 TCR (645% of the Belt conveyor systems manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=12.5 · 2019=25.2 · 2020=21.7 · 2021=46.9 · BLS 3.3

Where RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. falls in its industry

361 Belt conveyor systems manufact establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #9 safest of 9 Belt conveyor systems manufact employers in Minnesota.

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 21.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 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 05001,0001,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate RiteWay Conveyors, Inc.
RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. (32 employees, TCR 21.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5

RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. has fewer employees than the Belt conveyor systems manufacturing 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
2021 46.9 29.3 16 0 0
2020 21.7 21.7 6 0 0
2019 25.2 14.4 6 1 0
2018 12.5 4.2 2 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333922 · MN · Lester Prairie

361 Belt conveyor systems manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 10 employers in Lester Prairie, 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 Marine City 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal-Tech Industrial, LLC 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal-Tech Industrial Corp. - a div. of Nor-Tech Industrial Corp. 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCREW CONVEYOR CORPORATION 14.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE MN Farm 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz SE Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Bridge Combined Cycle 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steele Waseca Coop Electric 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Liquibox Lester Prairie 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lester Building Systems, LLC LP 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lester Prairie Public School 67 FTE
NAT-TCR 6957-Mdt - Ground Handling 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cornerstone Packing & Cooling 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Muscatine SNF Operator LLC 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR BV Operations, LLC dba Bradford Village Healthcare Center 21.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE MRE Quitman 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE PDC Development Corp. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roseburg HQ 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sparton 32 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.