Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction · Minnesota

Thorstad Companies

Chokio, MN · ~17 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thorstad Companies runs at 26% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction workplace, earning a grade A.

Thorstad Companies: 0.7 TCR = 26% of Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thorstad Companies safety composite

Thorstad Companies scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

Thorstad Companies held a steady TCR band

Thorstad Companies's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Chokio, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 26% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/32
  • PHOTO SLR COMMUNICATIONS
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SLR COMMUNICATIONS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thorstad Companies in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thorstad Companies averages 0.7 TCR (26% of the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction BLS benchmark).

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

Thorstad Companies TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=5.9 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8

Where Thorstad Companies falls in its industry

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 32 Utility line (i.e., sewer, wat employers in Minnesota.

Thorstad Companies (17 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Thorstad Companies
Thorstad Companies (17 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Thorstad Companies has fewer employees than the Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), const median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 5.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · MN · Chokio

1,614 Utility line (i.e., sewer, water), construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR SLR COMMUNICATIONS 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MFM Contracting Corp 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Utilities Park water 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concrete Cutting Systems, Inc. 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN Highway 12 003-0138-HT 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olivia - East 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hastings, MN 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cloquet 17 FTE
NAT-TCR Bolt Construction, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Slr Communications 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Estee Lauder - 350 SSR 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ong Er Tulsa Sc 0.7 TCR

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, 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.