Child Care Services · Minnesota

071702 Kindercare

Vadnais Heights, MN · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

071702 Kindercare runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Child Care Services workplace, earning a grade B.

071702 Kindercare: 2.5 TCR = 66% of Child Care Services BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

071702 Kindercare safety composite

071702 Kindercare scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.0

2023→2024

071702 Kindercare injury rate improved

071702 Kindercare's TCR fell 5.0 from 5.0 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624410 · Vadnais Heights, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 66% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/62
  • PHOTO LIFESPAN-ALLENTOWN
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LIFESPAN-ALLENTOWN (0.0 TCR gap)

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071702 Kindercare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 071702 Kindercare averages 2.5 TCR (66% of the Child Care Services BLS benchmark).

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

071702 Kindercare TCR series: 2023=5 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where 071702 Kindercare falls in its industry

272 Child Care Services establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 62 Child Care Services employers in Minnesota.

071702 Kindercare (29 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate 071702 Kindercare
071702 Kindercare (29 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

071702 Kindercare has fewer employees than the Child Care Services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · MN · Vadnais Heights

272 Child Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 42 employers in Vadnais Heights, 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 LIFESPAN-ALLENTOWN 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rosa Parks 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Causa, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kids Care 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Plains Dairy LLP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE The tru Shrimp Company 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2530-Redwood Falls, MN-FND (Monsanto Co.) 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kasota Stone Fabricators 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN State Operated Community Services (MSOCS) 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2087 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2087 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAC Mechanical & Electrical 338 FTE
NAT-TCR Dallas, TX 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Automatic Handling International, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Medical Central 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stoneledge Furniture LLC- Modesto 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bergeron Construction Co. Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cashmere 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lacreek Electric Association, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royster's Production Machining LLC 29 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. 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.