General public administration · Minnesota

Blue Earth County

Mankato, MN · ~511 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blue Earth County runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade D.

Blue Earth County: 6.3 TCR = 196% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blue Earth County safety composite

Blue Earth County scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.1

2017→2024

Blue Earth County injury rate improved

Blue Earth County's TCR fell 1.1 from 5.0 in 2017 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.0 · 2020=9.8 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Mankato, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 196% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #162/275
  • PHOTO Public Works/Sanitat…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~511 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Works/Sanitation/Shop (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blue Earth County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blue Earth County averages 6.3 TCR (196% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

Blue Earth County TCR series: 2017=5 · 2020=9.8 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Blue Earth County falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #162 safest of 275 General public administration employers in Minnesota.

Blue Earth County (511 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Blue Earth County
Blue Earth County (511 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Blue Earth County has more employees than the General public administration median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 3.9 1.5 17 1 0
2020 9.8 2.6 19 22 0
2017 5.0 0.5 16 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Mankato

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 214 employers in 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 Public Works/Sanitation/Shop 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Traverse County 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 068 VILLAGE OF CHANNAHON 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dallas County, Iowa 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Saint Mary's Hospital Detroit Lakes 511 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Department of Administration 511 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2573-MN022 510 FTE
STATE-SIZE Divine House Inc. - Willmar 510 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota State University, Mankato 2,729 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Mankato 2,468 FTE
CITY-NEAR MRCI - Premier Drive 1,641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mankato Area Public Schools 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Flexfab Horizons International 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR A&E Grinding 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmark Label 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR First Student Inc. 11928 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lennar - Orlando 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE GEHC : Waukesha WI (MR), HCS 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flower Mound TX 511 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Woodmark Corporation 511 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, 2020, 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.