Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing · Minnesota

The Specialty Mfg Co

St. Paul, MN · ~123 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Specialty Mfg Co runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

The Specialty Mfg Co: 2.4 TCR = 72% of Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Specialty Mfg Co safety composite

The Specialty Mfg Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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%).

Rising injury rate

The Specialty Mfg Co: 0.0 → 2.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.62× in 2019

The Specialty Mfg Co's TCR rose 2.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332911 · St. Paul, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #8/11
  • PHOTO Fike Corporation
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fike Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Specialty Mfg Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Specialty Mfg Co averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

The Specialty Mfg Co TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4.9 · 2019=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where The Specialty Mfg Co falls in its industry

298 Ball valves, industrial-type, establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 11 Ball valves, industrial-type, employers in Minnesota.

The Specialty Mfg Co (123 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Specialty Mfg Co
The Specialty Mfg Co (123 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0

The Specialty Mfg Co has more employees than the Ball valves, industrial-type, manufactur median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2019 2.2 1.5 3 0 0
2018 4.9 1.9 5 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332911 · MN · St. Paul

298 Ball valves, industrial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 370 employers in St. Paul, 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 Fike Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Valve and Hydrant 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plattco Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valve Check, Inc. 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lametti and Sons Inc. 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central Bi Products Long Prairie 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Franklin Street Bakery 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eggs - Big Lake MN 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR YCID 5,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific CRM 5,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Hospital 3,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR IT Campus 2,409 FTE
NAT-TCR Community Visiting Nurse Agency, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wakefield - Office 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Wegmans Potomac Mills 055 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Arkema Inc. Grand Rapids Plant 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Double Eagle Transportation 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grenadier Realty Corp 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jetstream of Houston 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cape Albeon 123 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: 2019, 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.