General public administration · Minnesota

City of Sandstone

Sandstone, MN · ~34 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Sandstone runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Sandstone: 9.0 TCR = 281% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Sandstone safety composite

City of Sandstone scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Sandstone: 0.0 → 20.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

City of Sandstone's TCR rose 20.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 20.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Sandstone, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 281% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #201/275
  • PHOTO Village of Villa Park
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Villa Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Sandstone in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Sandstone averages 9.0 TCR (281% 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 Sandstone TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=14.3 · 2021=14.3 · 2022=0 · 2023=14.3 · 2024=20 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Sandstone falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #201 safest of 275 General public administration employers in Minnesota.

City of Sandstone (34 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Sandstone
City of Sandstone (34 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Sandstone has fewer 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 20.0 0.0 2 0 0
2023 14.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 14.3 0.0 0 1 0
2019 14.3 14.3 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Sandstone

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Sandstone, 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 Village of Villa Park 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sherburne County Public Works - Highway Maintenance 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Vernon 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Services 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE KBQ, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daybreak Foods, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forsman Farms SH 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Klaphake Feed Mill Inc. 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandstone 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essentia Health Sandstone 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sandstone Health Care Center 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chris' Food Center - Sandstone 90 FTE
NAT-TCR Diemolding Corporation 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Seafood America, LLC 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Springs Care Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Christopher Heights of Webster 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atwood 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airtec Service, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Checkers Industrial Products LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dakota City PBX 34 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, 2017. 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.