General public administration · Minnesota

City of Brainerd

Brainerd, MN · ~208 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Brainerd runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Brainerd: 7.2 TCR = 224% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Brainerd safety composite

City of Brainerd scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−3.2

2017→2024

City of Brainerd injury rate improved

City of Brainerd's TCR fell 3.2 from 8.8 in 2017 to 5.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.8 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=6.5 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=5.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 224% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #178/275
  • PHOTO City of Renton
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~208 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Renton (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Brainerd in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Brainerd averages 7.2 TCR (224% 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 Brainerd TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=8.7 · 2020=6.5 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Brainerd falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #178 safest of 275 General public administration employers in Minnesota.

City of Brainerd (208 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Brainerd
City of Brainerd (208 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Brainerd 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 5.7 1.6 7 0 0
2023 3.9 0.0 4 1 0
2022 9.4 2.3 9 3 0
2020 6.5 2.4 4 4 0
2019 8.7 4.0 8 3 0
2018 7.2 2.4 6 3 0
2017 8.8 2.4 7 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Brainerd

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Brainerd, 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 City of Renton 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Flossmoor 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Kasson 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town Hall 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE GLS Companies Brooklyn Park 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerson Automation Solutions - Eden Prairie 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOAK - Oakdale Manufacturing 208 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2904-SAS-MN 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Josephs Medical Center 1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crow Wing County 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madden's on Gull Lake 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Lakes Colloege - Brainerd and Staples Campuses 258 FTE
NAT-TCR Watershed Distillery 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Forest Construction Company, Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Phil Etienne'S Timber Harvest,Inc. 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Michigan ATF Holdings LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE SupplyHouse Ohio LLC/The Boys Ohio LLC 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Red Cross - 6616 South 900 East 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Red Cross - 4860 Sheboygan Ave 208 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evapco, Incorporated 208 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, 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.