K-12 Education · Minnesota

Buffalo Lake Elementary

Buffalo Lake, MN · ~47 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buffalo Lake Elementary runs at 534% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical K-12 Education workplace, earning a grade F.

Buffalo Lake Elementary: 7.5 TCR = 534% of K-12 Education BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buffalo Lake Elementary safety composite

Buffalo Lake Elementary scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2017→2023

Buffalo Lake Elementary injury rate improved

Buffalo Lake Elementary's TCR fell 5.9 from 5.9 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 21.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.9 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=21.1 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Buffalo Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 534% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1347/1589
  • PHOTO School of Environmen…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: School of Environmental Studies (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buffalo Lake Elementary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buffalo Lake Elementary averages 7.5 TCR (534% of the K-12 Education BLS benchmark).

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

Buffalo Lake Elementary TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=21.1 · 2023=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Buffalo Lake Elementary falls in its industry

3,374 K-12 Education establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1347 safest of 1589 K-12 Education employers in Minnesota.

Buffalo Lake Elementary (47 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Buffalo Lake Elementary
Buffalo Lake Elementary (47 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Buffalo Lake Elementary has fewer employees than the K-12 Education median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 21.1 0.0 5 0 0
2018 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Buffalo Lake

3,374 K-12 Education employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 8 employers in Buffalo Lake, 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 School of Environmental Studies 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fillmore Central High School 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bungay School 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stevens Elementary School 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Staples 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campbell 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Willmar Live Haul 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mille Lacs Energy Cooperative 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR US 212 Beef Corporation 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kottke Trucking Inc. 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duane Kottke Trucking Corp 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo Lake Healthcare Center 87 FTE
NAT-TCR Hanford Sand and Gravel 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR A-J Sheet Metal, Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR San Bernardino Warehouse 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Boise West of Cascadia LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rebar International, Inc. 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harold White Millworks Inc. 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carlson Racine Roofing & Sheet Metal Inc 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aloft Tallahassee FL 47 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: 2023, 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.