Child Care Services · Minnesota

071706 Kindercare

Rochester, MN · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

071706 Kindercare runs at 128% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Child Care Services workplace, earning a grade D.

071706 Kindercare: 4.8 TCR = 128% of Child Care Services BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

071706 Kindercare safety composite

071706 Kindercare scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

071706 Kindercare: 0.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

071706 Kindercare's TCR rose 9.7 from 0.0 in 2023 to 9.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624410 · Rochester, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 128% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #30/62
  • PHOTO The Roane School - M…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Roane School - Mt. Zion (0.0 TCR gap)

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071706 Kindercare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 071706 Kindercare averages 4.8 TCR (128% of the Child Care Services BLS benchmark).

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

071706 Kindercare TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 3.8

Where 071706 Kindercare falls in its industry

272 Child Care Services establishments

Safer than 48% 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 #30 safest of 62 Child Care Services employers in Minnesota.

071706 Kindercare (30 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 071706 Kindercare
071706 Kindercare (30 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

071706 Kindercare has fewer employees than the Child Care Services median and a higher 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 9.7 9.7 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · MN · Rochester

272 Child Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, 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 The Roane School - Mt. Zion 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Early Learning Center 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HORACE MANN I, II, & III HEAD START 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR IDABEL HEAD START/EARLY HEAD START/EARLY LEARNING CENTER 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nelson Nursery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Plains Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Westland Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Grow Finish 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR Tropichem Research Labs LLC 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ncshe - Shelby 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Gaswa - Swainsboro 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Women's Health Services of Central Virginia 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE El Rancho Bella Vista LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE V2 Composites 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ingram Barge Company Metropolis 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Real Alloy Recycling, LLC - Wabash, IN 30 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.

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