Elementary and secondary schools · Minnesota

Benson Public Schools

Benson, MN · ~217 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Benson Public Schools runs at 433% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
avg TCR · per 100 workers
1.4
industry benchmark (BLS)
46
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Benson Public Schools's OSHA Total Case Rate of 6.1 to the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark of 1.4 (433% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Benson Public Schools's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 1.4 industry benchmark.

-5051015 2017201920202021202220232024 01.4 Industry benchmarkBenson Public Schools TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 611110.

Where Benson Public Schools falls in its industry

3,671 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1366 safest of 1753 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Minnesota.

Trend analysis for Benson Public Schools

Between 2017 and 2024, Benson Public Schools's Total Case Rate improved from 10.9 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 7 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 11.5, a spread of 11.5 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 7 reporting years, Benson Public Schools recorded 46 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 46 injuries, 1 illnesses shown on this page for Benson Public Schools are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

Verify on OSHA Establishment Search

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 611110 - Elementary and secondary schools.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 28,615,503 hours worked = 0.01 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Benson Public Schools (this establishment) 6.06 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg
High schools industry avg 1.40 BLS IIF, NAICS 611110
Minnesota state avg (all industries) 5.18 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Benson Public Schools to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 3 0 0
2023 4.4 0.6 7 0 0
2022 5.6 4.2 8 0 0
2021 6.1 1.0 6 0 0
2020 11.5 2.3 9 1 0
2019 3.9 1.0 4 0 0
2017 10.9 0.0 9 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Benson Public Schools's reported OSHA injury record versus its Elementary and secondary schools peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 433% of the Elementary and secondary schools benchmark, Benson Public Schools reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Elementary and secondary schools sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Benson Public Schools's safety grade?
Benson Public Schools has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.1 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 1.4 for Elementary and secondary schools.
How many injuries has Benson Public Schools reported?
Benson Public Schools has reported 46 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 7 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

Similar Employers

Matched by safety record across the industry, by workforce size within Minnesota, and by nearby establishments in Benson - a different peer set than the category browse links below.

Similar TCR (~6.1)

Similar size (~217 workers)

Nearby in Benson

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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.