Child Care Services · Minnesota

301954 Kindercare

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

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

301954 Kindercare runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Child Care Services workplace, earning a grade C.

301954 Kindercare: 3.4 TCR = 90% of Child Care Services BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

301954 Kindercare safety composite

301954 Kindercare scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

301954 Kindercare: 0.0 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

301954 Kindercare's TCR rose 6.8 from 0.0 in 2023 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 90% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #25/62
  • PHOTO U-GRO Learning Centres
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: U-GRO Learning Centres (0.0 TCR gap)

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301954 Kindercare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 301954 Kindercare averages 3.4 TCR (90% of the Child Care Services BLS benchmark).

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

301954 Kindercare TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.8

Where 301954 Kindercare falls in its industry

272 Child Care Services establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #25 safest of 62 Child Care Services employers in Minnesota.

301954 Kindercare (33 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 301954 Kindercare
301954 Kindercare (33 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

301954 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 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · MN · Shakopee

272 Child Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 180 employers in Shakopee, 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 U-GRO Learning Centres 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR La Mariposa Head Start Center 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR S Mark Taper Foundation 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kinderberry Hill #04 3.5 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 Amazon.com Services LLC - MSP1 2,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MSP1 2,202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Entrust Corporation 1,448 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emerson Automation Solutions - Shakopee 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Ohnew - Newark 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Machine Works 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Whittier S/C 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0014 3.4 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.