Water purification equipment manufacturing · Minnesota

Smith Engineering Inc

Chaska, MN · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith Engineering Inc runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water purification equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Smith Engineering Inc: 6.1 TCR = 184% of Water purification equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith Engineering Inc safety composite

Smith Engineering Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Smith Engineering Inc: 5.7 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2021

Smith Engineering Inc's TCR rose 0.8 from 5.7 in 2019 to 6.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333318 · Chaska, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 184% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #13/13
  • PHOTO Pentair Residential …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pentair Residential Filtration LLC - Dover (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith Engineering Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith Engineering Inc averages 6.1 TCR (184% of the Water purification equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Smith Engineering Inc TCR series: 2019=5.7 · 2021=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Smith Engineering Inc falls in its industry

361 Water purification equipment m establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 13 Water purification equipment m employers in Minnesota.

Smith Engineering Inc (38 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith Engineering Inc
Smith Engineering Inc (38 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Smith Engineering Inc has fewer employees than the Water purification equipment manufacturi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 6.5 2.2 3 0 0
2019 5.7 5.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333318 · MN · Chaska

361 Water purification equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 87 employers in Chaska, 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 Pentair Residential Filtration LLC - Dover 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Refurb / Afton 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automated Merchandising System 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR EcoWater Systems - Iuka 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pine Tree Orchard 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE LB Pork Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foley Hatchery 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2528-Glyndon, MN (Monsanto Co.) 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Chaska 917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Region Medical 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Entegris - Chaska 731 FTE
CITY-NEAR Administration 596 FTE
NAT-TCR Fairfield by Marriott Springfield North 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Retama Manor Nursing Center/San Antonio West 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR PACCAR Parts - Rockford 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Eckhart Advanced Technology Center 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sienna Hills Nursing and Rehab 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pall Corporation 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Teledyne PI - Acton 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fresh Ideas Management- McPherson College 38 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, 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.