Child Care Services · Minnesota

301996 Kindercare

Blaine, MN · ~28 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

301996 Kindercare runs at 80% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Child Care Services workplace, earning a grade B.

301996 Kindercare: 3.0 TCR = 80% of Child Care Services BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

301996 Kindercare safety composite

301996 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 3.04 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

301996 Kindercare injury rate improved

301996 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 · Blaine, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 3.0 · 80% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/62
  • PHOTO 300894 KINDERCARE
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 300894 KINDERCARE (0.0 TCR gap)

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301996 Kindercare in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 301996 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

301996 Kindercare TCR series: 2023=6.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where 301996 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 #21 safest of 62 Child Care Services employers in Minnesota.

301996 Kindercare (28 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 301996 Kindercare
301996 Kindercare (28 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

301996 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 · Blaine

272 Child Care Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 163 employers in Blaine, 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 300894 KINDERCARE 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tiny Tykes, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Horizon Academy #54 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Making Rainbows Hope/Administration Building 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shooting Star Native Seeds 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Moore Calves 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2528-Glyndon, MN 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worthington Public Utilities 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Estee Lauder - Blaine 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR Infinite Campus, Inc. 471 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1832 - Blaine 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3498 352 FTE
NAT-TCR San Joaquin County Public Defender 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 145 Westfall Plaza 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 178 Bethalto 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Scflo - Florence Center 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE IfA-Manoa 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage House of Portage 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ebensburg Power Company 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE M.J. Design Associates, INC 28 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.

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

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