Hospitals, general medical and surgical · Minnesota

Essentia Deer River Hospital

Deer River, MN · ~185 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essentia Deer River Hospital runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade D.

Essentia Deer River Hospital: 11.1 TCR = 147% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentia Deer River Hospital safety composite

Essentia Deer River Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Essentia Deer River Hospital: 3.9 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 20.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024

Essentia Deer River Hospital's TCR rose 2.6 from 3.9 in 2019 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Deer River, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 11.1 · 147% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #211/249
  • PHOTO Pottstown Hospital LLC
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~185 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pottstown Hospital LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essentia Deer River Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentia Deer River Hospital averages 11.1 TCR (147% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

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

Essentia Deer River Hospital TCR series: 2019=3.9 · 2020=9.1 · 2021=17.2 · 2022=20.9 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 7.5

Where Essentia Deer River Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #211 safest of 249 Hospitals, general medical and employers in Minnesota.

Essentia Deer River Hospital (185 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Essentia Deer River Hospital
Essentia Deer River Hospital (185 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Essentia Deer River Hospital has fewer employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 6.5 3.2 6 2 0
2023 8.7 4.0 8 3 0
2022 20.9 18.3 8 24 0
2021 17.2 13.2 10 16 0
2020 9.1 6.3 13 0 0
2019 3.9 0.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · MN · Deer River

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 12 employers in Deer River, 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 Pottstown Hospital LLC 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2643-64030332-033201 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4701-V790P 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Central Energy 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Installed Building Solutions #450 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1685 185 FTE
STATE-SIZE Graco Inc. - French Lake 185 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essentia Deer Healthcare Center 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD 317 King Elementary School 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Elementary School 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deer River High School 85 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0233 Rcho Palos Verdes 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hondo Framing Inc. 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Robert A. Tull, Inc. 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill Brandon SS 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Fairview Heights 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Full Service Janitorial Inc 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE S07937 - WM of WPA MD WV VA Area Office 185 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wheeling-Nippon Steel 185 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.