Child Care Services · Minnesota

301498 Kindercare

Name: 301498 Kindercare Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Plymouth, MN · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.8
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

301498 Kindercare runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Child Care Services workplace, earning a grade B.

301498 Kindercare: 2.8 TCR = 74% of Child Care Services BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

301498 Kindercare safety composite

301498 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).

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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%).

Rising injury rate

301498 Kindercare: 0.0 → 5.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

301498 Kindercare's TCR rose 5.6 from 0.0 in 2023 to 5.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 2.8 · 74% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #17/62
PHOTO HEAD START ADMIN
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HEAD START ADMIN (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.8
HEAD START ADM

2.8
Morris Plains

2.8
New Horizon Ac

2.8
KY Central Off

2.8

What this shows 301498 Kindercare averages 2.8 TCR (74% of the Child Care Services BLS benchmark).

301498 Kindercare TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=5.6 · BLS 3.8

Where 301498 Kindercare falls in its industry

272 Child Care Services establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 62 Child Care Services employers in Minnesota.

301498 Kindercare (37 employees, TCR 2.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

301498 Kindercare has more 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	5.6	0.0	1	0	0
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · MN · Plymouth

272 Child Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 321 employers in Plymouth, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	HEAD START ADMIN	HUGO, OK	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Morris Plains	MORRIS PLAINS, NJ	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	New Horizon Academy #52	COON RAPIDS, MN	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	KY Central Office	COVINGTON, KY	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Betaseed Inc - Shakopee	SHAKOPEE	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pals	WILLMAR	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Supply Support	FERGUS FALLS	37 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Grand Rapids Public Utilities Commission	GRAND RAPIDS	37 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Lawrence Service LLC	Plymouth	3,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EP SH Plymouth MN	Plymouth	2,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EP / SH Plymouth MN	Plymouth	1,982 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CN Plymouth	Plymouth	1,565 FTE
NAT-TCR	Bridgeview	Bridgeview, IL	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	266 Crestwood	St Louis, MO	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kyloe - Wwwl Outerloop Building	Louisville, KY	2.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ohmar - Marietta	Marietta, OH	2.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Pallet Source	Atlanta, GA	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tarpstop Gary	Gary, IN	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NFI Interactive Logistics LLC-2065 KEYSTONE PACIFIC PKWY	Patterson, CA	37 FTE
NAT-SIZE	PTL Engineering	Lapeer, MI	37 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.