Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products · Minnesota

The Bernicks Company.INC

Waite Park, MN · ~102 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Bernicks Company.INC runs at 25% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products workplace, earning a grade A.

The Bernicks Company.INC: 0.8 TCR = 25% of Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Bernicks Company.INC safety composite

The Bernicks Company.INC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 98% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 98% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−3.5

2018→2024

The Bernicks Company.INC injury rate improved

The Bernicks Company.INC's TCR fell 3.5 from 3.5 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454210 · Waite Park, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 25% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Tempe
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tempe (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Bernicks Company.INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Bernicks Company.INC averages 0.8 TCR (25% of the Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products BLS benchmark).

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

The Bernicks Company.INC TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.3 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.4

Where The Bernicks Company.INC falls in its industry

311 Vending machine merchandisers, establishments

Safer than 98% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Vending machine merchandisers, employers in Minnesota.

The Bernicks Company.INC (102 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Bernicks Company.INC
The Bernicks Company.INC (102 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 7.1

The Bernicks Company.INC has more employees than the Vending machine merchandisers, sale of p median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.1. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.5 2.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454210 · MN · Waite Park

311 Vending machine merchandisers, sale of products employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 82 employers in Waite 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 Tempe 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watermill Express - Corporate 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Butterball 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mountaire 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Highmark Companies 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minger Construction Co., Inc. 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE US121: Minneapolis 337 - SG 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blue Earth MN 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR WACOSA 570 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bernicks Pepsi & Chas A Bernick of St Cloud 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buttweiler Environmental, Inc. 260 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buttweiler Environmental, Inc. Corporate Office 247 FTE
NAT-TCR Riya Hotels LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Intermountain West Contractors 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR New Hudson Facades - PA 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Summa Restaurant 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aiken County Judicial Center 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE McMahon Transport Group LLC 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owens & Minor Baltimore 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE MSM Solutions, Inc. 102 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.