Painting and wallpapering · Minnesota

Sorensen Painting

Rochester, MN · ~80 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sorensen Painting runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade C.

Sorensen Painting: 3.2 TCR = 114% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sorensen Painting safety composite

Sorensen Painting scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Sorensen Painting: 3.2 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Sorensen Painting's TCR rose 1.1 from 3.2 in 2020 to 4.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Rochester, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 114% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #6/15
  • PHOTO Hermsmeyer Painting …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hermsmeyer Painting Co., Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sorensen Painting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sorensen Painting averages 3.2 TCR (114% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

Sorensen Painting TCR series: 2020=3.2 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=4.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Sorensen Painting falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 15 Painting and wallpapering employers in Minnesota.

Sorensen Painting (80 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sorensen Painting
Sorensen Painting (80 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Sorensen Painting has more employees than the Painting and wallpapering median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 4.3 2.8 3 0 0
2023 3.5 3.5 3 0 0
2022 3.6 2.4 3 0 0
2021 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2020 3.2 3.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · MN · Rochester

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, 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 Hermsmeyer Painting Co., Inc 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Keeland & Corder Painting, LLC 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Maintenance Inc 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR A.R. Pierrepont Co., Inc. 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wadena 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wysan Precast 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enclos Corp. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lakeville 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR Bouma Corporation: Grand Rapids 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 20237 - Medford 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 0928 - Niles 3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR KJ's Market #621 3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Buff City Soap 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeeland Farm Services, Inc 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE St.Peters Manor Care Center 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blastco Texas Inc 80 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. 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.