Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing · Minnesota

Truth Hardware

Owatonna, MN · ~631 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Truth Hardware runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Truth Hardware: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Truth Hardware safety composite

Truth Hardware scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

Truth Hardware: 3.1 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2017

Truth Hardware's TCR rose 0.6 from 3.1 in 2016 to 3.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Perko, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~631 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Perko, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Truth Hardware in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Truth Hardware averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Truth Hardware TCR series: 2016=3.1 · 2017=3.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Truth Hardware falls in its industry

189 Builder's hardware, metal, man establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Builder's hardware, metal, man employers in Minnesota.

Truth Hardware (631 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 Truth Hardware
Truth Hardware (631 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Truth Hardware has more employees than the Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2017 3.7 3.0 21 0 0
2016 3.1 0.9 21 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · MN · Owatonna

189 Builder's hardware, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, 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 Perko, Inc. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR National Products 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hansen International Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sargent and Greenleaf, Inc 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Jamar Company 632 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATA 630 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Correctional Facility-Faribault 633 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hearthside Foods Solutions 634 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wenger Corp - OWA 582 FTE
NAT-TCR Dolce Q Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR US - Supply Chain : 0934 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Villa East 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AAF Flanders CSC 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aspirus Riverview Hospital & Clinics, Inc. 631 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enersys Warrensburg 631 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry College, Inc 631 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0007 - US Products Admin 631 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: 2017, 2016. 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.