Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing · Minnesota

Uponor - Apple Valley

Apple Valley, MN · ~682 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Uponor - Apple Valley runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Uponor - Apple Valley: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Uponor - Apple Valley safety composite

Uponor - Apple Valley scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.3

2017→2024

Uponor - Apple Valley injury rate improved

Uponor - Apple Valley's TCR fell 2.3 from 3.1 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.1 · 2018=4.7 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Apple Valley, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO Jackson
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 121 inj
  • SIZE ~682 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jackson (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Minnesota employers → · Look up another →

Uponor - Apple Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Uponor - Apple Valley averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Uponor - Apple Valley TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2018=4.7 · 2020=3.1 · 2021=3 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Uponor - Apple Valley falls in its industry

332 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufact establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufact employers in Minnesota.

Uponor - Apple Valley (682 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Uponor - Apple Valley
Uponor - Apple Valley (682 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Uponor - Apple Valley has more employees than the Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 0.9 0.7 6 0 0
2023 1.6 1.1 10 0 0
2022 1.8 1.7 13 0 0
2021 3.0 2.7 21 1 0
2020 3.1 1.4 20 3 0
2018 4.7 3.0 33 0 0
2017 3.1 1.7 18 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · MN · Apple Valley

332 Pipe, rigid plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 91 employers in Apple Valley, 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 Jackson 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buena Vista 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAPCO Pipe and Fittings 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CANTEX INC 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Parsons Electric 682 FTE
STATE-SIZE CM5 MED - PLYMOUTH 683 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medivators - MN 680 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delta Air Lines - MS6 684 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Apple Valley 880 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2390 - Apple Valley South 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2642 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0643 - Apple Valley 345 FTE
NAT-TCR Safe Harbor Access Systems II, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Uniserve Project Management Corp 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Amarillo Tx 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa Palm River 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Petmate 682 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toledo Machining Plant 682 FTE
NAT-SIZE BDI 682 FTE
NAT-SIZE Foodservice Hickory - 0810 682 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, 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.