Education · Minnesota

Dean Lakes Educational Center

Shakopee, MN · ~116 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dean Lakes Educational Center runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Education workplace, earning a grade F.

Dean Lakes Educational Center: 3.0 TCR = 214% of Education BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dean Lakes Educational Center safety composite

Dean Lakes Educational Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 43%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Dean Lakes Educational Center: 1.6 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

Dean Lakes Educational Center's TCR rose 3.2 from 1.6 in 2021 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611710 · Shakopee, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 214% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #10/15
  • PHOTO Mass Higher Ed
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~116 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Mass Higher Ed (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dean Lakes Educational Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dean Lakes Educational Center averages 3.0 TCR (214% of the Education BLS benchmark).

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

Dean Lakes Educational Center TCR series: 2021=1.6 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=4 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Dean Lakes Educational Center falls in its industry

90 Education establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 15 Education employers in Minnesota.

Dean Lakes Educational Center (116 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Dean Lakes Educational Center
Dean Lakes Educational Center (116 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Dean Lakes Educational Center has fewer employees than the Education median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 4.9 2.4 4 0 0
2023 4.0 1.3 3 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2021 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611710 · MN · Shakopee

90 Education employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 180 employers in Shakopee, 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 Mass Higher Ed 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Floyd Light - 16 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zeiders Enterprises Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento Clinic 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bradbury Stamm Construction, Inc 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curb Masters, Inc. 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berd Electric 116 FTE
STATE-SIZE Design Electric, Inc. 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MSP1 2,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MSP1 2,202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Entrust Corporation 1,448 FTE
CITY-NEAR Emerson Automation Solutions - Shakopee 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Tar Heel NC MF Millwork 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Manteo Elementary 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Productions Unlimited Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LAS002 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 1739 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Foods Reno 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE McLaren Home Care and Hospice- North 116 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bellewood Senior Care 116 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. 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.