Employer · Minnesota

Clinic - Cottage Grove

Cottage Grove, MN · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Clinic - Cottage Grove runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Clinic - Cottage Grove: 5.2 TCR = 136% of industry BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Clinic - Cottage Grove safety composite

Clinic - Cottage Grove scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 70% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 70% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Clinic - Cottage Grove: 4.2 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Clinic - Cottage Grove's TCR rose 3.3 from 4.2 in 2017 to 7.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621111 · Cottage Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 136% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #263/419
  • PHOTO FV Clinics-Princeton
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FV Clinics-Princeton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Clinic - Cottage Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Clinic - Cottage Grove averages 5.2 TCR (136% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Clinic - Cottage Grove TCR series: 2017=4.2 · 2018=3.7 · 2019=7.5 · BLS 3.8

Where Clinic - Cottage Grove falls in its industry

2,836 industry establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #263 safest of 419 industry employers in Minnesota.

Clinic - Cottage Grove (31 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Clinic - Cottage Grove
Clinic - Cottage Grove (31 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Clinic - Cottage Grove has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019 7.5 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2017 4.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621111 · MN · Cottage Grove

2,836 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 33 employers in Cottage Grove, 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 FV Clinics-Princeton 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Certified Dermatology 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR FV Clinics-Elk River 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10187) 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Island Dairy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Protein Sources, LLP 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Dog Gen Plant-UC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Plant 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Renewal by Andersen 1,281 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Grove Site 719 FTE
CITY-NEAR Up North Plastics 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Cottage Grove 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodfellow AFB TX 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Abs 0028 2141 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-Swy 0035 1668 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0020 2570 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Haile Plantation Animal Clinic 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faf Bos 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moore Transport - Jessup 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE SEAL Analytical, Inc. 31 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: 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.