Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing · Minnesota

UCU, Inc

New Ulm, MN · ~49 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UCU, Inc runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

UCU, Inc: 5.1 TCR = 156% of Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UCU, Inc safety composite

UCU, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−4.3

2018→2024

UCU, Inc injury rate improved

UCU, Inc's TCR fell 4.3 from 4.3 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.3 · 2019=4.0 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=6.0 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339920 · New Ulm, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 156% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/11
  • PHOTO Kwik Goal, Ltd.
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kwik Goal, Ltd. (0.1 TCR gap)

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UCU, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UCU, Inc averages 5.1 TCR (156% of the Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

UCU, Inc TCR series: 2018=4.3 · 2019=4 · 2020=10.6 · 2021=4 · 2022=6 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where UCU, Inc falls in its industry

197 Athletic goods (except ammunit establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

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 11 Athletic goods (except ammunit employers in Minnesota.

UCU, Inc (49 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 UCU, Inc
UCU, Inc (49 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3

UCU, Inc has fewer employees than the Athletic goods (except ammunition, cloth median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 7.2 7.2 3 0 0
2022 6.0 0.0 3 0 0
2021 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2020 10.6 6.4 5 0 0
2019 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2018 4.3 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339920 · MN · New Ulm

197 Athletic goods (except ammunition, clothing, footwear, small arms) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 79 employers in New Ulm, 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 Kwik Goal, Ltd. 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schutt Sports LLC - Litchfield 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Adirondack Wood Bat Factory 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR StageRight 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Impact Power Solutions 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lodermeier's Inc 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glass & Mirror Inc. 49 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Building Systems, Ltd 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc. 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm Medical Center 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martin Luther College 441 FTE
NAT-TCR Zook Interiors LLC 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Jimbos Jumbos 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 40094 - Capstone Supervalu Joliet 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Flagler Hospital Food 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corvallis 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aus Aa 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE BECC Electric 49 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lompoc Van & Storage 49 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.