Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing · Minnesota

Rust-Oleum

Brooklyn Park, MN · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rust-Oleum runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Rust-Oleum: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rust-Oleum safety composite

Rust-Oleum scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2019→2020

Rust-Oleum injury rate improved

Rust-Oleum's TCR fell 3.9 from 7.1 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.1 · 2020=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325510 · Brooklyn Park, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Associated Finishing…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Associated Finishing Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rust-Oleum in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rust-Oleum averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Rust-Oleum TCR series: 2019=7.1 · 2020=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Rust-Oleum falls in its industry

530 Industrial product finishes an establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #7 safest of 9 Industrial product finishes an employers in Minnesota.

Rust-Oleum (61 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Rust-Oleum
Rust-Oleum (61 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Rust-Oleum has fewer employees than the Industrial product finishes and coatings 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 3.1 1.6 2 0 0
2019 7.1 0.0 2 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325510 · MN · Brooklyn Park

530 Industrial product finishes and coatings (i.e., paint) manufacturing 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 Associated Finishing Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR True Value Manufacturing 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Torginol, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Louisville Stain 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gittleman Construction and Maintenance 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE R and G Construction Co. 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE BLK ELECTRIC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cresco Food Technologies 61 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 Vectren Corporation - Mt. Vernon/Francisco 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eastern Division Gadsden Office 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sweeney Lumber 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vern Eide Body Shop 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meek's Springdale 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lehigh Construction Group, Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE CrossCountry Freight Solutions - Fargo 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works 61 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.