Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Minnesota

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection

New Ulm, MN · ~33 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection runs at 85% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade C.

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection: 2.7 TCR = 85% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection safety composite

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection held a steady TCR band

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=3.1 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=9.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · New Ulm, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 85% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/71
  • PHOTO Kill Devil Hills Pol…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kill Devil Hills Police (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection averages 2.7 TCR (85% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=3.1 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 71 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Minnesota.

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection (33 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection
Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection (33 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection has fewer employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 9.0 4.5 2 0 0
2022 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2020 3.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MN · New Ulm

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 79 employers in New Ulm, 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 Kill Devil Hills Police 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Glen Ellyn Police Department 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriffs Office 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Redwood County Law Enforcement Center 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Perham Egg LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gorans Brothers Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Las Vegas Raiders 17150004 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loeffler Construction & Consulting 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR J&R Schugel Trucking, Inc. 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Ulm Medical Center 640 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martin Luther College 441 FTE
NAT-TCR Hornady MFG Co West Plant 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Kirkwood Material Supply #688 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lincoln NE FXFE-LNK 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Muller Copper Line Sets 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rich Mountain Electric Cooperative, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Waukon 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mosaic Kansas City 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tireco Inc 33 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, 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.