City and town managers' offices · Minnesota

City of Northfield

Northfield, MN · ~157 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Northfield runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Northfield: 4.4 TCR = 138% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Northfield safety composite

City of Northfield scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

City of Northfield: 4.9 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2024

City of Northfield's TCR rose 1.9 from 4.9 in 2018 to 6.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Northfield, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 138% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #64/139
  • PHOTO Westminster Administ…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~157 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westminster Administrative Offices (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Northfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Northfield averages 4.4 TCR (138% 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 Northfield TCR series: 2018=4.9 · 2019=2.8 · 2021=4.6 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=6.8 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Northfield falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #64 safest of 139 City and town managers' office employers in Minnesota.

City of Northfield (157 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Northfield
City of Northfield (157 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Northfield has more 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 6.8 3.8 8 1 0
2023 4.7 2.4 5 1 0
2022 2.6 0.9 3 0 0
2021 4.6 4.6 5 0 0
2019 2.8 1.9 2 1 0
2018 4.9 1.0 4 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · MN · Northfield

1,010 City and town managers' offices 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Westminster Administrative Offices 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Streets Warehouse 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Churchill County 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Glenwood 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Landwher Construction INC 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper - Austin 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Thermo-Tech Windows LLC 157 FTE
STATE-SIZE Molded 157 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Olaf College 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carleton College 1,598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Mill Northfield MN 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northfield Hospital + Clinics- Campus 620 FTE
NAT-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Hemlock 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Johnson Memorial Health 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American Scaffolding, Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Morgan Distributing, INC 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE wild west express 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Countryside Property Maintenance LLC 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Golden Gateway 157 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trevcon Construction Co. LLC 157 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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.