Check valves, industrial-type, manufacturing · Minnesota

Valve Check, Inc.

Maplewood, MN · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valve Check, Inc. runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Check valves, industrial-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Valve Check, Inc.: 2.3 TCR = 71% of Check valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valve Check, Inc. safety composite

Valve Check, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Valve Check, Inc.: 0.0 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.41× in 2023

Valve Check, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.7 from 0.0 in 2019 to 5.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 6.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 2.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332911 · Maplewood, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 71% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #7/11
  • PHOTO The Specialty Mfg Co
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Specialty Mfg Co (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valve Check, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valve Check, Inc. averages 2.3 TCR (71% of the Check valves, industrial-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valve Check, Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Valve Check, Inc. falls in its industry

298 Check valves, industrial-type, establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 11 Check valves, industrial-type, employers in Minnesota.

Valve Check, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Valve Check, Inc.
Valve Check, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 2.0

Valve Check, Inc. has fewer employees than the Check valves, industrial-type, manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.0. 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
2023 5.7 5.7 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332911 · MN · Maplewood

298 Check valves, industrial-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Maplewood, 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 The Specialty Mfg Co 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Swagelok Atlantic 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fike Corporation 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Valve and Hydrant 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Perham Egg LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gorans Brothers Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Las Vegas Raiders 17150004 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loeffler Construction & Consulting 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3M Center 15,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR FV St. John's Hospital 2,053 FTE
CITY-NEAR FV St Johns Hospital 2,020 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. John's Hospital 1,574 FTE
NAT-TCR Alta Fresh LLC, DBA Chelan Fresh 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 80/R2/T7 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eckhart & Company Inc 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HealthBridge St. Louis 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mark Carpenter Plumbing, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Master Machine Works, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Service Connection - 1391 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Documotion Research Inc 33 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.