Etching equipment, semiconductor, manufacturing · Minnesota

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids

Sauk Rapids, MN · ~279 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids runs at 87% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Etching equipment, semiconductor, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids: 2.9 TCR = 87% of Etching equipment, semiconductor, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids safety composite

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−2.8

2017→2018

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids injury rate improved

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids's TCR fell 2.8 from 4.3 in 2017 to 1.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.3 · 2018=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333242 · Sauk Rapids, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 87% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO GAC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~279 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GAC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids averages 2.9 TCR (87% of the Etching equipment, semiconductor, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2018=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids falls in its industry

133 Etching equipment, semiconduct establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

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 8 Etching equipment, semiconduct employers in Minnesota.

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids (279 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 01,0002,0003,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids
Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids (279 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Talon Innovations Sauk Rapids has more employees than the Etching equipment, semiconductor, manufa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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
2018 1.5 0.7 3 1 0
2017 4.3 2.0 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333242 · MN · Sauk Rapids

133 Etching equipment, semiconductor, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 50 employers in Sauk Rapids, 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 GAC 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR BTU International 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lam Research Corp Hillsboro Office 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lam Research Corp Malta Field Office 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kurita America - Field/Sales/Service 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2367 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMERICAN RED CROSS - 100 ROBERT ST S 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson Dahlen Inc 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sauk Rapids-Rice Public Schools 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR J-Berd Mechanical Contractors INC 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR J-Berd Mechanical 386 FTE
CITY-NEAR 320141 - Various Mobile 306 FTE
NAT-TCR Elkay Wood Products - Culver 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fostdon Inc 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Portsmouth NFK 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Prospect Airport Services JAX 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE AUCP Main Office 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6790Texas Rehab Hosp Ft Worth 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conrad Morgan City Shipyard 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-PS-TYS-KNOXVILLE-PS 279 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: 2018, 2017. 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.