Discount Department Stores · Minnesota

1244 - Forest Lake

Forest Lake, MN · ~228 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1244 - Forest Lake runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1244 - Forest Lake: 8.0 TCR = 235% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1244 - Forest Lake safety composite

1244 - Forest Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

1244 - Forest Lake: 4.2 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 19.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2024

1244 - Forest Lake's TCR rose 1.1 from 4.2 in 2019 to 5.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 19.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Forest Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 235% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #103/131
  • PHOTO 0740 - Mary Esther
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~228 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0740 - Mary Esther (0.0 TCR gap)

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1244 - Forest Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1244 - Forest Lake averages 8.0 TCR (235% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1244 - Forest Lake TCR series: 2019=4.2 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=19 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 1244 - Forest Lake falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #103 safest of 131 Discount Department Stores employers in Minnesota.

1244 - Forest Lake (228 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 1244 - Forest Lake
1244 - Forest Lake (228 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1244 - Forest Lake has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher 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 5.3 4.4 6 0 0
2023 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2022 19.0 17.1 3 17 0
2021 9.7 7.0 3 8 0
2019 4.2 2.1 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · MN · Forest Lake

4,991 Discount Department Stores 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 0740 - Mary Esther 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1128 - Beavercreek 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2053 - Chattanooga North 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2520 - Lewisville State Highway 121 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Owatonna - Main Store 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 3761 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE 90060002 MAINTENANCE HANGAR 228 FTE
STATE-SIZE West St Paul ISD #197-Henry Sibley High School 228 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 1128 - Beavercreek 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0740 - Mary Esther 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pottstown Tower Heal 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Agronomy Center Division 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1279 - Kirkwood 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1092 - Beechmont Area 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1400 - Hiram 228 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1011 - Eastern Hills 228 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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