Machine shops · Minnesota

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc

Fairmont, MN · ~61 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc runs at 290% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade F.

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc: 9.6 TCR = 290% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc safety composite

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc: 11.1 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2024

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc's TCR rose 1.1 from 11.1 in 2018 to 12.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Fairmont, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 290% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #80/92
  • PHOTO Action Tool & Machine
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Action Tool & Machine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc averages 9.6 TCR (290% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc TCR series: 2018=11.1 · 2019=6 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=13.7 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=13.5 · 2024=12.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #80 safest of 92 Machine shops employers in Minnesota.

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc (61 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc
Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc (61 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Zierke Built Manufacturing, Inc has more employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 12.2 8.1 9 0 0
2023 13.5 9.5 10 0 0
2022 6.3 1.6 4 0 0
2021 13.7 5.9 7 0 0
2020 4.1 0.0 2 0 0
2019 6.0 1.5 4 0 0
2018 11.1 5.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MN · Fairmont

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 53 employers in Fairmont, 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 Action Tool & Machine 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Advanced Feedscrews 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MICROPHOTO LLC 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 4 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gittleman Construction and Maintenance 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE R and G Construction Co. 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE BLK ELECTRIC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cresco Food Technologies 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont 476 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3806 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3806 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairmont - Main Store 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Nox Us 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AZP009 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR LA - 831 E Arrow Hwy, P 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southwest Medical Center 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Summit ESP - Ross, ND 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Steel & Aluminum Products Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Community Blood Bank 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Silverado The Huntington - 227 61 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, 2018. 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.