Employer · Minnesota

678 - Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove, MN · ~86 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

678 - Cottage Grove runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

678 - Cottage Grove: 2.0 TCR = 58% of industry BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

678 - Cottage Grove safety composite

678 - Cottage Grove scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

−2.3

2016→2022

678 - Cottage Grove injury rate improved

678 - Cottage Grove's TCR fell 2.3 from 2.3 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Cottage Grove, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #18/73
  • PHOTO 71777
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71777 (0.0 TCR gap)

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678 - Cottage Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 678 - Cottage Grove averages 2.0 TCR (58% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

678 - Cottage Grove TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 678 - Cottage Grove falls in its industry

2,917 industry establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 73 industry employers in Minnesota.

678 - Cottage Grove (86 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 678 - Cottage Grove
678 - Cottage Grove (86 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

678 - Cottage Grove has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.8 2.4 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 4.7 2.4 2 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · MN · Cottage Grove

2,917 industry 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 71777 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1007 St George 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1091 Cartersville 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1107 - Casa Grande 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 34 RECC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmer Soderberg, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Drilling 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc. 86 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 1107 - Casa Grande 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Avenue Facility 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Select Genetics MO Prairie View 006-0138-PV 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Assembly LLC 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 687 - SW Colorado Springs 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE 564 - Beaver Dam 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE 980 - Santa Rosa 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE 988 - Kingston 86 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.