Independent School District · Minnesota

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy

Columbia Heights, MN · ~119 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy runs at 90% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Independent School District workplace, earning a grade C.

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy: 1.3 TCR = 90% of Independent School District BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy safety composite

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy: 0.7 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.7 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Columbia Heights, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.3 · 90% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #178/1589
  • PHOTO EAST CENTRAL ELEMENT…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EAST CENTRAL ELEMENTARY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy averages 1.3 TCR (90% of the Independent School District BLS benchmark).

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

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy TCR series: 2017=0.7 · 2018=0.7 · 2019=2 · 2020=0 · 2022=2.5 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy falls in its industry

3,374 Independent School District establishments

Safer than 89% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #178 safest of 1589 Independent School District employers in Minnesota.

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy (119 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy
Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy (119 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Columbia Heights ISD #13-Columbia Academy has more employees than the Independent School District median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2018 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2017 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Columbia Heights

3,374 Independent School District 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 EAST CENTRAL ELEMENTARY 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kenyon High School 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Macedonia Middle School 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rowayton Elementary 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rice Companies Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lindsay Windows Minnesota 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE WSI Industries, Inc. 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonny's Hydra-Flex Backroom 119 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 BDP Industries, Inc. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cox Construction Co. 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Dairy Transport-Windthorst 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR tkSCS Greenville Containment 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Milk Specialties Global Fond Du Lac 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shenandoah Nursing Home 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sealed Air Corp Seneca 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gordon Smith (Main Center) 119 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 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.