Home Centers · Minnesota

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114

Cottage Grove, MN · ~162 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home Centers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114: 9.2 TCR = 272% of Home Centers BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 safety composite

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114: 7.1 → 9.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.53× in 2024

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114's TCR rose 2.7 from 7.1 in 2018 to 9.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444110 · Cottage Grove, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.2 · 272% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #91/109
  • PHOTO WEST DULUTH MN - 3074
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 72 inj
  • SIZE ~162 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WEST DULUTH MN - 3074 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 averages 9.2 TCR (272% of the Home Centers BLS benchmark).

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

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 TCR series: 2018=7.1 · 2019=11.5 · 2020=9.8 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=8.1 · 2023=13.9 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 falls in its industry

6,309 Home Centers establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 109 Home Centers employers in Minnesota.

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 (162 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Cottage Grove Mn - 3114
Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 (162 employees, TCR 9.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Cottage Grove Mn - 3114 has more employees than the Home Centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 9.8 4.9 10 0 0
2023 13.9 6.5 15 0 0
2022 8.1 4.5 9 0 0
2021 4.4 2.6 5 0 0
2020 9.8 4.9 12 0 0
2019 11.5 0.9 13 0 0
2018 7.1 4.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444110 · MN · Cottage Grove

6,309 Home Centers 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 WEST DULUTH MN - 3074 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1022 LOWE S OF WATERTOWN NY 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tulsa 1904 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-1554 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green Bay Packaging Inc. 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Pattern Co., Inc. 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Massman Villard 162 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lunds - Apple Valley 162 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 Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mays Landing Nj 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR South Islander Xpress LLC 9.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Citizen Hotel 9.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Florence Ky - 3359 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ames Ia - 3356 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lawrence Ks - 3328 162 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk Ne - 3103 162 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.