Institutional furniture manufacturing · Minnesota

Wenger Corp - OWA

Owatonna, MN · ~582 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wenger Corp - OWA runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Institutional furniture manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Wenger Corp - OWA: 5.3 TCR = 160% of Institutional furniture manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wenger Corp - OWA safety composite

Wenger Corp - OWA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

Wenger Corp - OWA held a steady TCR band

Wenger Corp - OWA's TCR held near 0.0 from 4.2 in 2019 to 4.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.2 · 2020=6.0 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 337127 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO Norwinn Company
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 131 inj
  • SIZE ~582 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norwinn Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wenger Corp - OWA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wenger Corp - OWA averages 5.3 TCR (160% of the Institutional furniture manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wenger Corp - OWA TCR series: 2019=4.2 · 2020=6 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=5.6 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Wenger Corp - OWA falls in its industry

208 Institutional furniture manufa establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Institutional furniture manufa employers in Minnesota.

Wenger Corp - OWA (582 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Wenger Corp - OWA
Wenger Corp - OWA (582 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 77 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Wenger Corp - OWA has more employees than the Institutional furniture manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 4.2 3.4 19 1 0
2023 5.6 3.9 27 0 0
2022 4.8 3.4 23 1 0
2021 7.1 5.7 23 11 0
2020 6.0 3.9 20 9 0
2019 4.2 1.8 19 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

337127 · MN · Owatonna

208 Institutional furniture 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 Norwinn Company 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sturdisteel 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Contract Furniture 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR idX Impressions 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ISD 199 582 FTE
STATE-SIZE Transport Solutions NA and EMEA : MFG-Minneapolis, MN-USA 583 FTE
STATE-SIZE EI001 - Central Office 580 FTE
STATE-SIZE Smithfield Foods 586 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Manufacturing 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Nisqually Red Wind Casino 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical City Fort Worth 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blind Industries - Salisbury Cutting 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE West Chester HQ 582 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coastal Transport Co., Inc. 582 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crc Tempe Az 582 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tootsie Roll Industries, LLC 582 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. 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.