Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground · Minnesota

Detroit Lakes EMS

Detroit Lakes, MN · ~31 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Detroit Lakes EMS runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

Detroit Lakes EMS: 10.9 TCR = 288% of Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Detroit Lakes EMS safety composite

Detroit Lakes EMS scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 35%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2020→2024

Detroit Lakes EMS injury rate improved

Detroit Lakes EMS's TCR fell 3.3 from 11.5 in 2020 to 8.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 22.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.5 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=22.8 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Detroit Lakes, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 288% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #12/27
  • PHOTO HEMS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HEMS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Detroit Lakes EMS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Detroit Lakes EMS averages 10.9 TCR (288% of the Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Detroit Lakes EMS TCR series: 2020=11.5 · 2021=7.9 · 2022=22.8 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=8.2 · BLS 3.8

Where Detroit Lakes EMS falls in its industry

976 Emergency medical transportati establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 27 Emergency medical transportati employers in Minnesota.

Detroit Lakes EMS (31 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Detroit Lakes EMS
Detroit Lakes EMS (31 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Detroit Lakes EMS has fewer employees than the Emergency medical transportation service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 8.2 4.1 2 0 0
2023 4.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 22.8 22.8 0 5 0
2021 7.9 4.0 1 1 0
2020 11.5 11.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · MN · Detroit Lakes

976 Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Detroit Lakes, 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 HEMS 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR GFL 033 Gallup NM Operations 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Manchester Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Britain EMS 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Island Dairy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Protein Sources, LLP 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Dog Gen Plant-UC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Plant 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Mary's Hospital Detroit Lakes 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Marys Hospital - Detroit Lakes 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Operations - Detroit Lakes, MN 472 FTE
CITY-NEAR BTD Manufacturing Detroit Lakes 448 FTE
NAT-TCR Eagle Metals, Inc. 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR MS Care Center of Morton 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR BAKERY 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Donalsonville Hospital 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Basalite - Selma 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Bucket Trucking LLC - 509truk 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fremont Oilseeds 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Rapids Trucking Terminal 31 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.