Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing · Minnesota

Safety Signs LLC

Lakeville, MN · ~106 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Safety Signs LLC runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Safety Signs LLC: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Safety Signs LLC safety composite

Safety Signs LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Safety Signs LLC held a steady TCR band

Safety Signs LLC's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.1 in 2017 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.1 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Lakeville, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Jacksonville TX Manu…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jacksonville TX Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Safety Signs LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Safety Signs LLC averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Safety Signs LLC TCR series: 2017=4.1 · 2018=6.9 · 2019=0.9 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Safety Signs LLC falls in its industry

405 Signs and signboards (except p establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #6 safest of 12 Signs and signboards (except p employers in Minnesota.

Safety Signs LLC (106 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Safety Signs LLC
Safety Signs LLC (106 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Safety Signs LLC has more employees than the Signs and signboards (except paper, pape median and a lower 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
2024 4.0 0.7 6 0 0
2023 3.8 0.0 5 0 0
2022 1.8 0.0 2 0 0
2021 2.7 0.0 3 0 0
2020 3.4 0.0 4 0 0
2019 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 6.9 0.9 8 0 0
2017 4.1 1.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · MN · Lakeville

405 Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 141 employers in Lakeville, 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 Jacksonville TX Manufacturing 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercury Plastics MD Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allen Industries Inc.-Corp 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Interstate SignWays 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Modern Heating & Air Conditioning, LLC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broadway Bakery - 5508 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite-Tops 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE R&M Manufacturing 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lakeville Technical Center 645 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schmitty & Sons 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 634 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1484 - Lakeville 414 FTE
NAT-TCR Grandview 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR First Service CGC, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Wood 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Energy Shield Window & Door Company Main Office 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Diversey / U S Chemical 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Metal Supply Lakeland 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chino Hills 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinch Valley Community Action, Inc. 106 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, 2021, 2020, 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.