Employer · Minnesota

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine

Name: TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Hastings, MN · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.6
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine: 5.6 TCR = 169% of industry BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine safety composite

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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).

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine held a steady TCR band

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine's TCR held near 0.0 from 5.5 in 2023 to 5.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.5 · 2024=5.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333998 · Hastings, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK P26
PHOTO FANUC - Centerpoint
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FANUC - Centerpoint (0.1 TCR gap)

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Industrial Fil

6.2
KMC - KUKA Sys

5.8
FANUC - Center

5.7
This site

5.6
Preco, LLC. So

4.5

What this shows TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the industry BLS benchmark).

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine TCR series: 2023=5.5 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.3

Where TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine falls in its industry

34 industry establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine (22 employees, TCR 5.6) among 17 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 145 employees and a TCR of 2.7

TJ Merroe DBA Rother Machine has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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	5.6	0.0	1	0	0
2023	5.5	0.0	0	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333998 · MN · Hastings

34 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 72 employers in Hastings, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	FANUC - Centerpoint	PONTIAC, MI	5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KMC - KUKA Systems N.A. LLC	STERLING HEIGHTS, MI	5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Industrial Filter Manufacturers	EVANSVILLE, IN	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Preco, LLC. Somerset	SOMERSET, WI	4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sunrise Dairy	GAYLORD	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Emerald Spring Dairy, Inc.	PLAINVIEW	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Greenstreak Dairy	BORUP	22 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Dassel	COKATO	22 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dakota County	Hastings	2,091 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Regina Hospital (United Hastings Regina)	Hastings	553 FTE
CITY-NEAR	610 AFTON ALPS	Hastings	449 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Regina Hospital	Hastings	389 FTE
NAT-TCR	Chr Hansen - New Berlin	New Berlin, WI	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Terranova Ranch, Inc	Helm, CA	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ameripack Foods LLC	Hughes Springs, TX	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Danbury Brunswick	Brunswick, OH	5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	De Pere Hardware	De Pere, WI	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bridge Organics	Vicksburg, MI	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	A. J. Catagnus, Inc.	Norristown, PA	22 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Fidelitone - Norwalk, CA	Norwalk, CA	22 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.