Refrigeration units, truck-type, manufacturing · Minnesota

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services

Albert Lea, MN · ~64 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Refrigeration units, truck-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services: 8.0 TCR = 242% of Refrigeration units, truck-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services safety composite

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

−13.9

2022→2024

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services injury rate improved

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services's TCR fell 13.9 from 18.9 in 2022 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 18.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=18.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=5.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333415 · Albert Lea, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 242% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/22
  • PHOTO TMP Manufacturing Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TMP Manufacturing Co Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services averages 8.0 TCR (242% of the Refrigeration units, truck-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services TCR series: 2022=18.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.3

Where Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services falls in its industry

461 Refrigeration units, truck-typ establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 22 Refrigeration units, truck-typ employers in Minnesota.

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services (64 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services
Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services (64 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 164 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Thermo King Sales & Service/Sanco Equipment/Sanco Services has fewer employees than the Refrigeration units, truck-type, manufac 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 5.0 0.0 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 18.9 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333415 · MN · Albert Lea

461 Refrigeration units, truck-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 TMP Manufacturing Co Inc 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thermo King of Springfield 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodman Company 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Building 1 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE PILGRIMS PRIDE HATCHERIES 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeborn Mower Electric Cooperative 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thomas Grace Construction, Inc. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lou-Rich Front Street 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Maguire O'Hara Construction 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Willert Home Products, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort Spa and Marina 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR AMI Aviation Services 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bon Tool Co 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Curated Events Nashville 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ochsner Post Acute Care Center - South Shore 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital 64 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.