Assisted Living · Minnesota

Birchwood Cottage Mankato

North Mankato, MN · ~38 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birchwood Cottage Mankato runs at 268% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted Living workplace, earning a grade F.

Birchwood Cottage Mankato: 10.2 TCR = 268% of Assisted Living BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birchwood Cottage Mankato safety composite

Birchwood Cottage Mankato scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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 10.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Birchwood Cottage Mankato: 9.8 → 10.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

Birchwood Cottage Mankato's TCR rose 0.8 from 9.8 in 2023 to 10.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · North Mankato, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 268% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #175/240
  • PHOTO Oaks at Braselton
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oaks at Braselton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birchwood Cottage Mankato in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birchwood Cottage Mankato averages 10.2 TCR (268% of the Assisted Living BLS benchmark).

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

Birchwood Cottage Mankato TCR series: 2023=9.8 · 2024=10.6 · BLS 3.8

Where Birchwood Cottage Mankato falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted Living establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #175 safest of 240 Assisted Living employers in Minnesota.

Birchwood Cottage Mankato (38 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Birchwood Cottage Mankato
Birchwood Cottage Mankato (38 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Birchwood Cottage Mankato has fewer employees than the Assisted Living median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 10.6 10.6 3 0 0
2023 9.8 9.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · MN · North Mankato

6,510 Assisted Living employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 57 employers in North Mankato, 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 Oaks at Braselton 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bonaventure of South Hill LLC 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR GB-HHH2-SPRING ARBOR GREENSBORO 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brookdale Austintown 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pine Tree Orchard 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE LB Pork Inc 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foley Hatchery 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2528-Glyndon, MN (Monsanto Co.) 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR FUN.com Inc 776 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Occasions Group Inc. - 0156-MNNO3 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Occasions Group - MN - 0156 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Graphics Commercial - 0027-MNNO10 349 FTE
NAT-TCR Oaks at Braselton 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 1137 North Kealy 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hazard ARH Clinic 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Harding's #165 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Street Millwork 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfax 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sceptre Mechanical Incorporated 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pompton Plains NJ 38 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.