Child Care Services · Minnesota

300894 Kindercare

Cottage Grove, MN · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

300894 Kindercare runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Child Care Services workplace, earning a grade B.

300894 Kindercare: 3.0 TCR = 80% of Child Care Services BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

300894 Kindercare safety composite

300894 Kindercare scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

−6.1

2023→2024

300894 Kindercare injury rate improved

300894 Kindercare's TCR fell 6.1 from 6.1 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624410 · Cottage Grove, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 80% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #20/62
  • PHOTO New Horizon Academy …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Horizon Academy #54 (0.0 TCR gap)

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300894 Kindercare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 300894 Kindercare averages 3.0 TCR (80% of the Child Care Services BLS benchmark).

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

300894 Kindercare TCR series: 2023=6.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where 300894 Kindercare falls in its industry

272 Child Care Services establishments

Safer than 67% 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 #20 safest of 62 Child Care Services employers in Minnesota.

300894 Kindercare (33 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 300894 Kindercare
300894 Kindercare (33 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

300894 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 6.1 6.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · MN · Cottage Grove

272 Child Care Services 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 New Horizon Academy #54 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 301996 KINDERCARE 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tiny Tykes, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Making Rainbows Hope/Administration Building 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Perham Egg LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gorans Brothers Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Las Vegas Raiders 17150004 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loeffler Construction & Consulting 33 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 Kysom - Somerset 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lexlawn 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Lumber 143 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR All Occasions Event Rental 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Burlington 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Threaded Fasteners, Inc. (Tampa 007) 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpha Sheet Metal Works, Inc 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Essential Medical Supply, Inc. 33 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.