Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Minnesota

Volkswagen of Duluth

Hermantown, MN · ~28 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Volkswagen of Duluth runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade D.

Volkswagen of Duluth: 6.1 TCR = 180% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Volkswagen of Duluth safety composite

Volkswagen of Duluth scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

Volkswagen of Duluth: 0.0 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Volkswagen of Duluth's TCR rose 11.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 11.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Hermantown, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 180% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #187/240
  • PHOTO Dale Spradley Motors…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dale Spradley Motors, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Volkswagen of Duluth in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Volkswagen of Duluth averages 6.1 TCR (180% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

Volkswagen of Duluth TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=3 · 2020=10.5 · 2021=11 · BLS 3.4

Where Volkswagen of Duluth falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #187 safest of 240 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Minnesota.

Volkswagen of Duluth (28 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Volkswagen of Duluth
Volkswagen of Duluth (28 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Volkswagen of Duluth has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and 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
2021 11.0 0.0 2 0 0
2020 10.5 7.0 2 1 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · MN · Hermantown

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 32 employers in Hermantown, 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 Dale Spradley Motors, Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR OB Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snell Motors Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Automobile Dealership 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shooting Star Native Seeds 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moore Calves 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2528-Glyndon, MN 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worthington Public Utilities 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1757 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1757 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR HERMANTOWN MN - 3054 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6320 192 FTE
NAT-TCR MAX Aerostructures 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Carehaven of Pleasants 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 83 - Schofield Diamond Kote 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cotton Growers Cooperative 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Spancrete - Sebring 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linden Terminal / EIN 30-0854003 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ray Roofing & Supply, Inc. 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Gainesville 28 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.