Mental health facilities, residential · Minnesota

Birch Tree Center

Name: Birch Tree Center Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Duluth, MN · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.5
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Birch Tree Center runs at 66% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Mental health facilities, residential workplace, earning a grade B.

Birch Tree Center: 2.5 TCR = 66% of Mental health facilities, residential BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birch Tree Center safety composite

Birch Tree Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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).

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Birch Tree Center held a steady TCR band

Birch Tree Center's TCR held near 0.0 from 3.8 in 2017 to 3.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.8 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623220 · Duluth, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 66% of ind

DART 3.8 DART
RANK #19/75
PHOTO 047 Texas Health Rec…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 047 Texas Health Recovery and Wellness (0.0 TCR gap)

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3D7 400 - REEN

2.5

What this shows Birch Tree Center averages 2.5 TCR (66% of the Mental health facilities, residential BLS benchmark).

Birch Tree Center TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=3.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Birch Tree Center falls in its industry

1,165 Mental health facilities, resi establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 75 Mental health facilities, resi employers in Minnesota.

Birch Tree Center (44 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Birch Tree Center has fewer employees than the Mental health facilities, residential median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019	3.8	3.8	1
2018	0.0	0.0	0
2017	3.8	0.0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623220 · MN · Duluth

1,165 Mental health facilities, residential employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 340 employers in Duluth, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	047 Texas Health Recovery and Wellness	MANSFIELD, TX	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ramey-Estep Homes Residential Campus	RUSH, KY	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bridges of Iowa	DES MOINES, IA	2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	3D7 400 - REENTRY SERVICES DIVISION-CDCR PLACEMENT STOP -REGION 2	CAMPBELL, CA	2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	West River	MORRIS	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Monticello Training Ctr-LL	MONTICELLO	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Water Treatment Facility	BELLE PLAINE	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WasteWater Treatment Facility	BELLE PLAINE	44 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St Mary's Medical Center	Duluth	3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth	Duluth	3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center	Duluth	1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Minnesota Duluth	Duluth	1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR	Tallahassee	Midway, FL	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	National Beef Moultrie, GA.	Moultrie, GA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Precision Insulation, Inc.	Sacramento, CA	2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rotadyne Roll Group Romeoville	Romeoville, IL	2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ALD Precast Corp. WHOLE COMPANY	Columbus, OH	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wyatt Johnson VW/Kia	Clarksvile, TN	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Seatacpark.com	Seatac, WA	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Weyand Food & Son	Tampa, FL	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: 2019, 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.