City and town managers' offices · Minnesota

City of Buffalo Lake

Buffalo Lake, MN · ~45 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Buffalo Lake runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Buffalo Lake: 2.9 TCR = 91% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Buffalo Lake safety composite

City of Buffalo Lake scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

City of Buffalo Lake held a steady TCR band

City of Buffalo Lake's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.0 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Buffalo Lake, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 91% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #47/139
  • PHOTO McMorran Place Arena
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: McMorran Place Arena (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Buffalo Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Buffalo Lake averages 2.9 TCR (91% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

City of Buffalo Lake TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Buffalo Lake falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #47 safest of 139 City and town managers' office employers in Minnesota.

City of Buffalo Lake (45 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Buffalo Lake
City of Buffalo Lake (45 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Buffalo Lake has fewer employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · MN · Buffalo Lake

1,010 City and town managers' offices 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 McMorran Place Arena 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wastewater Treatment Plant 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Civic Arts Plaza - City Hall 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquette County - Sawyer Service Center and Wastewater Treatment Plant 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE District 45 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allstar Construction Commercial Op Co, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Doran Construction Company, LLC 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hasslen Construction Company, Inc. 45 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 Devon Energy - Killdeer ND 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JM Eagle Magnolia AR 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Northside Forsyth 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Controls- Park City Site 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southerland Transport LLC 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corridor Network Construction, Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bicycle Street Inn & Waterfront Collection 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ceilings Inc 45 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. 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.