General medical and surgical hospitals · Minnesota

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site

Bigfork, MN · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site runs at 24% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical General medical and surgical hospitals workplace, earning a grade A.

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site: 1.8 TCR = 24% of General medical and surgical hospitals BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site safety composite

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site: 0.0 → 3.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site's TCR rose 3.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Bigfork, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 24% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #22/249
  • PHOTO Amita Health Saint J…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amita Health Saint Joseph Hospital Elgin (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site averages 1.8 TCR (24% of the General medical and surgical hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.6 · BLS 7.5

Where Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site falls in its industry

6,862 General medical and surgical h establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 249 General medical and surgical h employers in Minnesota.

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site (30 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site
Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site (30 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site has fewer employees than the General medical and surgical hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2018 3.6 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MN · Bigfork

6,862 General medical and surgical hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 5 employers in Bigfork, 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 Amita Health Saint Joseph Hospital Elgin 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LVH-Tilghman 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marshall Browning Hospital 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Medical Center 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nelson Nursery 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Plains Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Westland Dairy 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Grow Finish 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bigfork Valley Hospital 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bigfork Hospital 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR GGI Solutions USA 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bigfork Schools 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Chattanooga Recycle 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grocer Supply Company : Corder Houston, TX (GMDC) 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Residential - 125 Darlene Dr. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Variform Inc. dba Ply Gem Siding Group 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE JX Peterbilt - Lansing 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland Sheet Plant 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE SPPAL Charlotte 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE MPS Printery 30 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: 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.