Elementary and secondary schools · Minnesota

Birch Grove Elementary

Brooklyn Park, MN · ~87 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birch Grove Elementary runs at 713% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Birch Grove Elementary: 10.0 TCR = 713% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birch Grove Elementary safety composite

Birch Grove Elementary scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Birch Grove Elementary: 7.0 → 12.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.65× in 2018

Birch Grove Elementary's TCR rose 5.9 from 7.0 in 2017 to 12.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.65× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Brooklyn Park, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 713% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #1456/1589
  • PHOTO ISD #712
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ISD #712 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birch Grove Elementary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birch Grove Elementary averages 10.0 TCR (713% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Birch Grove Elementary TCR series: 2017=7 · 2018=12.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Birch Grove Elementary falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1456 safest of 1589 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Minnesota.

Birch Grove Elementary (87 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Birch Grove Elementary
Birch Grove Elementary (87 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Birch Grove Elementary has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2018 12.9 6.5 6 0 0
2017 7.0 4.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Brooklyn Park

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 226 employers in Brooklyn Park, 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 ISD #712 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALC, Transition Plus, Pathways 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Middle School 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Education Center 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE LS Black 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minger Construction Companies Incorporated 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herzog Roofing 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egan Company - Rochester, MN 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0591 - Target Northern Campus 5,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMRG 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR Retail Merchandising Services 1,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Egan Company 962 FTE
NAT-TCR D'Onofrio's Food Center 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Colby Retirement Community 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 409 ABC Supply Co. inc. 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 469 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Best Western Agate Beach 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holland - BI 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Angels Camp (Caang) 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Pleasant (Mimtp) 87 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: 2018, 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.