Nursing homes · Minnesota

Essentia Living Center

Fosston, MN · ~70 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essentia Living Center runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Essentia Living Center: 11.8 TCR = 182% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essentia Living Center safety composite

Essentia Living Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Essentia Living Center: 5.4 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 24.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2024

Essentia Living Center's TCR rose 3.3 from 5.4 in 2019 to 8.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 24.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Fosston, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 11.8 · 182% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #314/430
  • PHOTO MHC (McColls Health …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MHC (McColls Health Center) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essentia Living Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essentia Living Center averages 11.8 TCR (182% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Essentia Living Center TCR series: 2019=5.4 · 2020=18.6 · 2021=13.9 · 2022=24.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 6.5

Where Essentia Living Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #314 safest of 430 Nursing homes employers in Minnesota.

Essentia Living Center (70 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Essentia Living Center
Essentia Living Center (70 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Essentia Living Center has fewer employees than the Nursing homes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 8.7 8.7 3 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 24.3 22.1 2 9 0
2021 13.9 11.9 3 4 0
2020 18.6 16.7 10 0 0
2019 5.4 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MN · Fosston

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 17 employers in Fosston, 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 MHC (McColls Health Center) 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR El Dorado Care and Rehab 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Megansett Nursing & Rehab 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wingate Residences at Melbourne Place 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harmony 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Cloud Service Center 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE H2I Group 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Valley Machine 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fosston Hospital 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hugo's #13 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consolidated Equipment Group 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magelssen Elementary School 88 FTE
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Kensignton Operation LLC 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Silverado Sierra Vista - 225 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Turf Star, Inc- Brea 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ellington Assisted Living Services, LLC - Watertown 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harris Steel Erectors,inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Billings MT FXFE-BLS 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomas Cuisine Home Office 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dragon Products Lamar 70 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.