Department Store · Minnesota

678 Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove, MN · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

678 Cottage Grove runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Department Store workplace, earning a grade C.

678 Cottage Grove: 4.0 TCR = 117% of Department Store BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

678 Cottage Grove safety composite

678 Cottage Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

678 Cottage Grove: 3.8 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

678 Cottage Grove's TCR rose 0.5 from 3.8 in 2023 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Cottage Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 4.0 · 117% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #46/73
  • PHOTO 71666
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 71666 (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 4.0 TCR (117% of the Department Store BLS benchmark).

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

678 Cottage Grove TCR series: 2023=3.8 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 678 Cottage Grove falls in its industry

2,917 Department Store establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #46 safest of 73 Department Store employers in Minnesota.

678 Cottage Grove (53 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 (53 employees, TCR 4.0) 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 Department Store median and a higher 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
2024 4.2 4.2 1 0 0
2023 3.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · MN · Cottage Grove

2,917 Department Store 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 71666 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 162 Pottstown 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 223 Madison West 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 591 Chino Spectrum Center 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Ottawa 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perham Breeder Farms 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Facility 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maertens- Brenny Construction Company 53 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 Southland Care Center 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2744 Hin44 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Reliance Steel Company 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Pines on Carmel Senior Living 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Powers Development Group 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Suburban Cabinet Shop 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laudick Trucking, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Chucker and Engineering Co 53 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.