Executive and legislative office combinations · Minnesota

City of Columbia Heights

Columbia Heights, MN · ~219 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Columbia Heights runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Executive and legislative office combinations workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Columbia Heights: 4.5 TCR = 142% of Executive and legislative office combinations BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Columbia Heights safety composite

City of Columbia Heights scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

City of Columbia Heights: 4.3 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2024

City of Columbia Heights's TCR rose 1.7 from 4.3 in 2017 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921140 · Columbia Heights, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 142% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO Florence County Coun…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~219 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Florence County Council (0.1 TCR gap)

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City of Columbia Heights in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Columbia Heights averages 4.5 TCR (142% of the Executive and legislative office combinations BLS benchmark).

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

City of Columbia Heights TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2018=3.6 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Columbia Heights falls in its industry

239 Executive and legislative offi establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #6 safest of 9 Executive and legislative offi employers in Minnesota.

City of Columbia Heights (219 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 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 01,0002,0003,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Columbia Heights
City of Columbia Heights (219 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Columbia Heights has fewer employees than the Executive and legislative office combina 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 6.1 5.4 8 1 0
2023 6.1 3.4 9 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 4 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 4 2 0
2017 4.3 2.5 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921140 · MN · Columbia Heights

239 Executive and legislative office combinations employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 27 employers in Columbia Heights, 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 Florence County Council 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLARENDON COUNTY 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Smyrna 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Manhattan 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Teleflex Medical OEM 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4223-M3100 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Servion Group 219 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Preclinical Services 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sullivan Lake 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Heights Public Schools ISD#13 448 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Heights ISD #13 442 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crest View Corporation 270 FTE
NAT-TCR Cherokee Park Rehab 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bay Park Conveyance 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Springhill Suites 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Rowleys Wholesale MIBC 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE HDT Global 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 055 - Van Dyke Ave Sterling Ht 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 121 - Grape Rd Mishawaka 219 FTE
NAT-SIZE 245 - Hartland Township MI 219 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, 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.