Discount Department Stores · Minnesota

0662 - Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove, MN · ~169 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0662 - Cottage Grove runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade C.

0662 - Cottage Grove: 4.1 TCR = 120% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0662 - Cottage Grove safety composite

0662 - Cottage Grove scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

0662 - Cottage Grove: 4.9 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

0662 - Cottage Grove's TCR rose 1.6 from 4.9 in 2019 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Cottage Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 120% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #46/131
  • PHOTO 1235 - Hudson
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1235 - Hudson (0.0 TCR gap)

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0662 - Cottage Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0662 - Cottage Grove averages 4.1 TCR (120% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0662 - Cottage Grove TCR series: 2019=4.9 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=2.7 · 2023=2.6 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 0662 - Cottage Grove falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 131 Discount Department Stores employers in Minnesota.

0662 - Cottage Grove (169 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0662 - Cottage Grove
0662 - Cottage Grove (169 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0662 - Cottage Grove has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 6.5 0.0 5 0 0
2023 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2022 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2021 3.6 3.6 2 1 0
2019 4.9 3.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MN · Cottage Grove

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 33 employers in Cottage Grove, 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 1235 - Hudson 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2015 - Grand Rapids South 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2368 - Bullhead City 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2385 - Harmar 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Office 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Inside Edge Commercial Interior Services 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Navitor Midwest - 0026-MNNO2 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lindar Corporation 169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renewal by Andersen 1,281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove Site 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Up North Plastics 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Cottage Grove 366 FTE
NAT-TCR 1235 - Hudson 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2015 - Grand Rapids South 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle Cherry Strt 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 2368 - Bullhead City 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0636 - North Spokane 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0275 - Fresno West 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stanford Brothers, Inc. 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1525 - Silverthorne 169 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.