Road construction · Minnesota

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc.

Shafer, MN · ~154 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc.: 7.0 TCR = 251% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. safety composite

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−1.4

2019→2024

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. injury rate improved

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc.'s TCR fell 1.4 from 5.9 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.9 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Shafer, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 251% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #84/107
  • PHOTO Niblock Excavating, …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Niblock Excavating, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. averages 7.0 TCR (251% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. TCR series: 2019=5.9 · 2020=6.8 · 2021=8.6 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=7.9 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #84 safest of 107 Road construction employers in Minnesota.

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. (154 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Shafer Contracting Co., Inc.
Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. (154 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Shafer Contracting Co., Inc. has more employees than the Road construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 4.5 1.9 7 0 0
2023 7.9 1.6 14 1 0
2022 8.5 2.8 14 1 0
2021 8.6 4.3 16 0 0
2020 6.8 2.3 12 0 0
2019 5.9 1.7 13 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MN · Shafer

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Shafer, 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 Niblock Excavating, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sprouls Construction, Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KNIVE RIVER - MOLALLA DIVISION 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lunda/ C.S. McCrossan Joint Venture 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pinnacle Wall Systems 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE NTE Engineering + Manufacturing 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sportech, Inc - Building One 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Right Arrow Parcels, Inc. 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Muller Boat Co 29 FTE
NAT-TCR Twin Falls 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at William S Hart Sd Dining 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR GSO 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sander's Markets 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Concrete Proection and Restoration, LLC 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE NX Automotive Logistics USA, Inc. (Main Campus) 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reading, Pennsylvania 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Louisiana-Pacific Sagola 154 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. 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.