Foundries, aluminum (except die-casting) · Minnesota

Sure Cast Foundry

Blaine, MN · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
38.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sure Cast Foundry runs at 1169% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Foundries, aluminum (except die-casting) workplace, earning a grade F.

Sure Cast Foundry: 38.6 TCR = 1169% of Foundries, aluminum (except die-casting) BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sure Cast Foundry safety composite

Sure Cast Foundry scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 38.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−22.4

2021→2024

Sure Cast Foundry injury rate improved

Sure Cast Foundry's TCR fell 22.4 from 50.4 in 2021 to 28.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 50.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=50.4 · 2022=41.5 · 2023=46.3 · 2024=28.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331524 · Blaine, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 38.6 · 1169% of ind

  • DART 23.3 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO Black Bay Ventures V…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Black Bay Ventures VI LLC, DBA Palmer Foundry (15.5 TCR gap)

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Sure Cast Foundry in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sure Cast Foundry averages 38.6 TCR (1169% of the Foundries, aluminum (except die-casting) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Sure Cast Foundry TCR series: 2021=50.4 · 2022=41.5 · 2023=46.3 · 2024=28 · BLS 3.3

Where Sure Cast Foundry falls in its industry

156 Foundries, aluminum (except di establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Foundries, aluminum (except di employers in Minnesota.

Sure Cast Foundry (23 employees, TCR 38.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 01020304050 Average employees Total Case Rate Sure Cast Foundry
Sure Cast Foundry (23 employees, TCR 38.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Sure Cast Foundry has fewer employees than the Foundries, aluminum (except die-casting) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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 28.0 23.3 6 0 0
2023 46.3 32.4 10 0 0
2022 41.5 31.1 8 0 0
2021 50.4 35.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331524 · MN · Blaine

156 Foundries, aluminum (except die-casting) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 163 employers in Blaine, 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 Black Bay Ventures VI LLC, DBA Palmer Foundry 23.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BCF/GFI 23.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Meloon 21.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Foundry 21.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis Washer and Stamping 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bergh's Fabricating, Inc. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-CAP - 1200 Building 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Placing 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Estee Lauder - Blaine 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR Infinite Campus, Inc. 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1832 - Blaine 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3498 352 FTE
NAT-TCR Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 048 Juvenile Detention Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemper Moving Systems 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Consolidated Bookkeeping and Management Services Inc 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mediacom's Huntsville, AL 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE T&F Lumber Company, LLC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE HW Bronx 23 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. 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.