COMMUNICATIONS · Minnesota

Suttle - Mn - Hector

Hector, MN · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Suttle - Mn - Hector runs at 146% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical COMMUNICATIONS workplace, earning a grade D.

Suttle - Mn - Hector: 4.8 TCR = 146% of COMMUNICATIONS BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Suttle - Mn - Hector safety composite

Suttle - Mn - Hector scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

TCR Δ

−9.6

2019→2020

Suttle - Mn - Hector injury rate improved

Suttle - Mn - Hector's TCR fell 9.6 from 9.6 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=9.6 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334210 · Hector, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 146% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO LONG BRANCH NJ
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LONG BRANCH NJ (1.4 TCR gap)

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Suttle - Mn - Hector in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Suttle - Mn - Hector averages 4.8 TCR (146% of the COMMUNICATIONS BLS benchmark).

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

Suttle - Mn - Hector TCR series: 2019=9.6 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Suttle - Mn - Hector falls in its industry

42 COMMUNICATIONS establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 COMMUNICATIONS employers in Minnesota.

Suttle - Mn - Hector (59 employees, TCR 4.8) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 1.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 29 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Suttle - Mn - Hector
Suttle - Mn - Hector (59 employees, TCR 4.8) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Suttle - Mn - Hector has fewer employees than the COMMUNICATIONS median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 9.6 7.2 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334210 · MN · Hector

42 COMMUNICATIONS employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Hector, 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 LONG BRANCH NJ 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACTIA Corp 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commercial Electronics 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bastrop, TX 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE JDR Technologies, LLC 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 7580 Commerce Lane NE, Fridley, MN 55432 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advantage Seamless, Inc. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sauk Rapids, MN (All State) 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loftness Specialized Farm Equipment, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR MNHC-CSI-MN - HECTOR 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hector High School 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Schweiss Distributing Inc 55 FTE
NAT-TCR Built-Well Construction Co 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Loews Vanderbilt Hotel 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kasselman Solar LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 44511b - Asheville Dc 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE TES - Goodlettsville Operations 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Save A Lot #198 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foremost Farms - Marshfield 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anthem Kipling Management, LLC 59 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: 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.