General public administration · Minnesota

City of Albert Lea

Albert Lea, MN · ~189 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Albert Lea runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Albert Lea: 5.2 TCR = 162% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Albert Lea safety composite

City of Albert Lea scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−4.7

2017→2024

City of Albert Lea injury rate improved

City of Albert Lea's TCR fell 4.7 from 6.6 in 2017 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.6 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Albert Lea, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 162% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #142/275
  • PHOTO Wood River
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~189 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wood River (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Albert Lea in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Albert Lea averages 5.2 TCR (162% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

City of Albert Lea TCR series: 2017=6.6 · 2018=5.4 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=8.8 · 2023=5 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Albert Lea falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 45% 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 #142 safest of 275 General public administration employers in Minnesota.

City of Albert Lea (189 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 City of Albert Lea
City of Albert Lea (189 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Albert Lea 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 1.9 1.9 3 0 0
2023 5.0 3.8 7 1 0
2022 8.8 8.8 6 8 0
2021 4.5 3.2 4 3 0
2020 4.5 4.5 7 0 0
2019 4.8 1.8 7 1 0
2018 5.4 3.0 7 2 0
2017 6.6 4.2 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Albert Lea

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 Wood River 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Incorporated County of Los Alamos 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington County Law Enforcement Center 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guilford County Local Government - All Employees 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wakefield Pork, Inc. 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Utility 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Northern Corporation - Twin Cities 189 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curtis 1000 Inc - 0096-MNBY1 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lou-Rich Front Street 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Lexington KY 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruppert Landscape - White Marsh 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Toyota Motor Mfg of Alabama 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR S02888 - Brem-Air Disposal 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nowhere Commissary, LLC 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE NHC HealthCare Charleston LLC 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE Racine 189 FTE
NAT-SIZE PA - Ikea 189 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.