Assisted Living · Minnesota

Birchwood Cottages Owatonna

Owatonna, MN · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Birchwood Cottages Owatonna runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted Living workplace, earning a grade F.

Birchwood Cottages Owatonna: 8.3 TCR = 218% of Assisted Living BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Birchwood Cottages Owatonna safety composite

Birchwood Cottages Owatonna scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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 Cottages Owatonna: 7.1 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Birchwood Cottages Owatonna's TCR rose 2.3 from 7.1 in 2023 to 9.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 218% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #141/240
  • PHOTO The Woodlands of Col…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Woodlands of Columbus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Birchwood Cottages Owatonna in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Birchwood Cottages Owatonna averages 8.3 TCR (218% of the Assisted Living BLS benchmark).

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

Birchwood Cottages Owatonna TCR series: 2023=7.1 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Birchwood Cottages Owatonna falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted Living establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #141 safest of 240 Assisted Living employers in Minnesota.

Birchwood Cottages Owatonna (51 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Cottages Owatonna
Birchwood Cottages Owatonna (51 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Birchwood Cottages Owatonna has more 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 9.4 7.1 4 0 0
2023 7.1 7.1 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · MN · Owatonna

6,510 Assisted Living employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, 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 The Woodlands of Columbus 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2248-60085 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Revere Court of Crystal Lake 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solstice Senior Living at Lees Summit 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Union Dairy LLP 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE ON 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wes Hanson Builders 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis Office 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR D. B. Fisher School Student Transportation, Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Doctors Hospital dba Ascentist Hospital 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Woodlands of Columbus 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 135 North Richland Hills 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Boston Office 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nycm-90-New York, Ny - Mutual 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andrews 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quick6 Delivery 51 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.