Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel · Minnesota

St. Croix Forge, Inc.

Forest Lake, MN · ~62 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

St. Croix Forge, Inc. runs at 418% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel workplace, earning a grade F.

St. Croix Forge, Inc.: 13.8 TCR = 418% of Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

St. Croix Forge, Inc. safety composite

St. Croix Forge, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

TCR Δ

−16.8

2017→2021

St. Croix Forge, Inc. injury rate improved

St. Croix Forge, Inc.'s TCR fell 16.8 from 19.4 in 2017 to 2.7 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 22.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=19.4 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=14.5 · 2020=22.8 · 2021=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Forest Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 418% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Progressive Metal Fo…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Progressive Metal Forming, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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St. Croix Forge, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows St. Croix Forge, Inc. averages 13.8 TCR (418% of the Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel BLS benchmark).

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

St. Croix Forge, Inc. TCR series: 2017=19.4 · 2018=9.5 · 2019=14.5 · 2020=22.8 · 2021=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where St. Croix Forge, Inc. falls in its industry

241 Horseshoes, ferrous forged, ma establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Horseshoes, ferrous forged, ma employers in Minnesota.

St. Croix Forge, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate St. Croix Forge, Inc.
St. Croix Forge, Inc. (62 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

St. Croix Forge, Inc. has fewer employees than the Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from pu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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
2021 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2020 22.8 18.7 7 4 0
2019 14.5 9.1 8 0 0
2018 9.5 3.8 5 0 0
2017 19.4 15.6 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · MN · Forest Lake

241 Horseshoes, ferrous forged, made from purchased iron or steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 71 employers in Forest Lake, 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 Progressive Metal Forming, Inc. 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pioneer Forge Division of Powers and Sons LLC 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clifford-Jacobs Forging Company 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edgerton Forge, Inc. 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pipestone System Services 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sports Group 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE BlueLinx Corporation Aitkin 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nor-Son Construction 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest Lake YMCA 1,477 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2274 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2274 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinco, Inc. 288 FTE
NAT-TCR Bayside Terrace 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 335055-Metuchen Po 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02254 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-02303 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Industrial Timber Hiddenite 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Graduate Richmond 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Graduate Oxford 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Graduate Cincinnati 62 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, 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.