Painting and wallpapering · Minnesota
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc.
St. Louis Park, MN · ~322 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 3.3
- Avg TCR
- 2.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc. runs at 118% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade C.
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 118% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc. safety composite
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).
47/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- D 3.31 per 100 workers
Safer than 43% of industry peers
- DART rate
- D 0.96 per 100 workers
Safer than 48% 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
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc.: 2.7 → 3.8 TCR
Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.1 from 2.7 in 2018 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 238320 · St. Louis Park, MN ABOVE-IND · MID
Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 118% of ind
- DART 1.0 DART
- RANK #8/15
- PHOTO Crout and Heller Pai…
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 41 inj
- SIZE ~322 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Crout and Heller Painting Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)
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Swanson & Youngdale, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- COMMERCIAL PAI
COMMERCIAL PAINTING, INC
3.4 TCR
- This site
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc.
3.3 TCR
- Crout and Hell
Crout and Heller Painting Services, Inc.
3.3 TCR
- LONGSTRETH BRO
LONGSTRETH BROTHERS, INC.
3.3 TCR
- The Paint King
The Paint Kings Inc
3.3 TCR
What this shows Swanson & Youngdale, Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (118% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc. TCR series: 2018=2.7 · 2019=3.1 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 2.8
Where Swanson & Youngdale, Inc. falls in its industry
582 Painting and wallpapering establishmentsSafer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.
Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Painting and wallpapering employers in Minnesota.
Swanson & Youngdale, Inc. 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 | 3.8 | 1.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 3.3 | 0.5 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 3.6 | 1.3 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
238320 · MN · St. Louis Park
582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 63 employers in St. Louis Park, 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 | Crout and Heller Painting Services, Inc. | 3.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | LONGSTRETH BROTHERS, INC. | 3.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | The Paint Kings Inc | 3.3 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | COMMERCIAL PAINTING, INC | 3.4 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Minneapolis - Downtown 230 | 322 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | 1757 | 322 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | 2448 | 322 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Bernicks Pepsi & Chas A Bernick of St Cloud | 323 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Japs Olson - St Louis Park | 670 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | City of St. Louis Park | 431 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Lunds & Byerlys, St. Louis Park | 262 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Sholom Home West Inc. | 236 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Norwegian Christian Home & Health Center | 3.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Charles T. Driscoll Masonry Restoration Co., Inc. | 3.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Salt Fork Lodge | 3.3 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Aero Arc Inc. | 3.3 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Maple Knoll Village | 322 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Evans Mechwart Hambleton & Tilton, Inc | 322 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | North Lincoln Hospital | 322 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | HVAMA03 | 322 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.