Colleges, universities, and professional schools · Minnesota

Carleton College

Name: Carleton College Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Northfield, MN · ~1,598 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 1.1
Avg TCR: 1.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Carleton College runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Colleges, universities, and professional schools workplace, earning a grade C.

Carleton College: 1.1 TCR = 82% of Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carleton College safety composite

Carleton College scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers
DART rate: F 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Carleton College: 0.9 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2023

Carleton College's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.9 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Northfield, MN AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.1 · 82% of ind

DART 0.8 DART
RANK #13/47
PHOTO Seattle University
BOOK 8y book
INJ 74 inj
SIZE ~1,598 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Seattle University (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Carleton College averages 1.1 TCR (82% of the Colleges, universities, and professional schools BLS benchmark).

Carleton College TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=1 · 2019=1.1 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=1.2 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 1.4

Where Carleton College falls in its industry

347 Colleges, universities, and pr establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 47 Colleges, universities, and pr employers in Minnesota.

Carleton College (1,598 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Carleton College has more employees than the Colleges, universities, and professional median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2023	1.3	0.8	10	0
2022	1.4	0.7	14	1
2021	1.2	0.4	9	0
2020	1.7	0.9	12	1
2019	1.1	0.9	9	0
2018	1.0	0.8	8	0
2017	0.6	0.3	5	0
2016	0.9	0.5	7	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · MN · Northfield

347 Colleges, universities, and professional schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 66 employers in Northfield, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Seattle University	SEATTLE, WA	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	NEW YORK, NY	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	St. Josephs College of Nursing	SYRACUSE, NY	1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lincoln University	LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, PA	1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	FV Ridges Hospital	BURNSVILLE	1,588 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Federal Cartridge Company	ANOKA	1,582 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hormel Foods Corporation	AUSTIN	1,581 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NMDP-World Headquarters	MINNEAPOLIS	1,579 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Olaf College	Northfield	1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Campbell Mill Northfield MN	Northfield	627 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Northfield Hospital + Clinics- Campus	Northfield	620 FTE
CITY-NEAR	THREE LINKS	Northfield	335 FTE
NAT-TCR	Filtration : Filtration Innovation Center	Columbia, TN	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	1064 West Perry School District	Elliottsburg, PA	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dane & Associates Electric Co.	Okc, OK	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	RainMaster Lawn System	Eau Claire, WI	1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	1101 Home Office	Atlanta, GA	1,598 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Alton	Wood River, IL	1,598 FTE
NAT-SIZE	California Men's Colony - San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo, CA	1,599 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Houston Methodist West Hospital (Katy, TX)	Houston, TX	1,597 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.