Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · Minnesota

Whitaker Buick Company

Forest Lake, MN · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitaker Buick Company runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade D.

Whitaker Buick Company: 4.3 TCR = 128% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitaker Buick Company safety composite

Whitaker Buick Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Whitaker Buick Company: 0.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Whitaker Buick Company's TCR rose 2.9 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Forest Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 128% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #134/240
  • PHOTO Bowditch Inc
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bowditch Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitaker Buick Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitaker Buick Company averages 4.3 TCR (128% 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

Whitaker Buick Company TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=14.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Whitaker Buick Company falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #134 safest of 240 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in Minnesota.

Whitaker Buick Company (43 employees, TCR 4.3) 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 Whitaker Buick Company
Whitaker Buick Company (43 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Whitaker Buick Company 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
2024 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 14.5 8.7 5 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · MN · Forest Lake

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 · 71 employers in Forest Lake, 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 Bowditch Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freysinger Hyundai 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lithia of Santa Rosa, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR MGH Auto, LLC. 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Farmers Cooperative 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edina Service Center 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wigen Water Technologies 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lennar Multi-Family - Central (MN) 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest Lake YMCA 1,477 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2274 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2274 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinco, Inc. 288 FTE
NAT-TCR Gateway Payroll 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Memphis Light Gas and Water 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR E & B PAVING LLC - Concrete 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Purcell P&C LLC. 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tutor Perini - Division 20 Portal Widening Project 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE nexAir Union City Plant 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Estates Florida Payroll LLC 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Security Sistems Services 43 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. 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.