Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Minnesota

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center

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

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade D.

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center: 4.1 TCR = 129% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center safety composite

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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%).

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center held a steady TCR band

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center's TCR held near 0.0 from 3.8 in 2018 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Windom, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 129% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #9/71
  • PHOTO Village of Homewood …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Homewood Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center averages 4.1 TCR (129% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center TCR series: 2018=3.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=10.3 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 71 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Minnesota.

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center (34 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center
Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center (34 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Cottonwood County Law Enforcement Center has fewer employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2023 7.6 3.8 2 0 0
2022 10.3 6.8 3 0 0
2021 3.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MN · Windom

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 38 employers in Windom, 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 Homewood Police Department 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - San Juan 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Manassas 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Public Safety 4.1 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 Hylife foods 914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Windom 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toro Main Plant 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR Windom Area Schools 204 FTE
NAT-TCR Ulta Beauty WDC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Workstream / Hamilton Casework Solutions 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Auria Holmesville LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #197 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE D & S Sheetmetal, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Safran Landing Systems (LAS) 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chain Link Fence & Supply, Inc. 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Safran Landing Systems (ABE) 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.