Elementary and Secondary Schools · Minnesota

Birch Lake

White Bear Lake, MN · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birch Lake runs at 393% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and Secondary Schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Birch Lake: 5.5 TCR = 393% of Elementary and Secondary Schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birch Lake safety composite

Birch Lake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 Lake: 5.1 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.07× in 2024

Birch Lake's TCR rose 0.8 from 5.1 in 2023 to 5.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · White Bear Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.5 · 393% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #1140/1589
  • PHOTO ISD# 834-Lily Lake E…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ISD# 834-Lily Lake Elementary (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birch Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birch Lake averages 5.5 TCR (393% 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 Lake TCR series: 2023=5.1 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Birch Lake falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and Secondary Schoo establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #1140 safest of 1589 Elementary and Secondary Schoo employers in Minnesota.

Birch Lake (44 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Lake
Birch Lake (44 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Birch Lake has fewer 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
2024 5.9 5.9 2 0 0
2023 5.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · White Bear Lake

3,374 Elementary and Secondary Schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 88 employers in White Bear Lake, 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# 834-Lily Lake Elementary 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harrison Center 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HWS 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maple Street School 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE West River 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monticello Training Ctr-LL 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment Facility 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WasteWater Treatment Facility 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR White Bear Lake Area Schools 1,280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carlson Building Maintenance, Inc. 693 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carlson Building Maintenance Corporate Office 667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Century College 557 FTE
NAT-TCR TidalHealth Nanticoke 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ontario Pec 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DiamondHead Beach Resort 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Silver Dollar City LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 33 Bond St LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at N Arizona University Mgmt 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Scotts Company - Carrollton 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE D2div-Ph-Dallas 2 Division 44 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.