Sewage treatment plants or facilities · Minnesota

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant

Farmington, MN · ~26 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sewage treatment plants or facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant: 3.3 TCR = 273% of Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS 1.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant safety composite

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.3

2019→2023

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant injury rate improved

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant's TCR fell 3.3 from 3.3 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=3.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=13.1 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221320 · Farmington, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.3 · 273% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/13
  • PHOTO North River Wastewat…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: North River Wastewater Treatment Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant averages 3.3 TCR (273% of the Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant TCR series: 2019=3.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=13.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 1.2

Where Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant falls in its industry

400 Sewage treatment plants or fac establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 13 Sewage treatment plants or fac employers in Minnesota.

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant (26 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant
Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant (26 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Empire Wastewater Treatment Plant has fewer employees than the Sewage treatment plants or facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 13.1 9.8 3 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.3 3.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221320 · MN · Farmington

400 Sewage treatment plants or facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 47 employers in Farmington, 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 North River Wastewater Treatment Facility 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR H2O innovation Operation & Maintenance LLC - Undine 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rialto 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Miller Environmental, Inc. 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Becker 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Silverstreak Dairy 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms Huiras MN 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden Egg 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmington ISD #192 925 FTE
CITY-NEAR Installed Building Solutions 213 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmington Health Services 199 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farmington ISD #192-High School/District Office 195 FTE
NAT-TCR Janke General Contractors, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1103-Courtyard/Residence Inn Austin 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #145 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Paducah 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gold-Eagle Cooperative-Goldfield 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hixson Utility District 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc H & F Transport 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE RAZ Construction LLC 26 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.