Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Minnesota

Fairmont Police Department

Fairmont, MN · ~22 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fairmont Police Department runs at 588% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Fairmont Police Department: 18.8 TCR = 588% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairmont Police Department safety composite

Fairmont Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−8.5

2020→2023

Fairmont Police Department injury rate improved

Fairmont Police Department's TCR fell 8.5 from 26.8 in 2020 to 18.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 26.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=26.8 · 2021=25.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=18.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Fairmont, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.8 · 588% of ind

  • DART 13.7 DART
  • RANK #63/71
  • PHOTO COH Police Departmen…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: COH Police Department Central Patrol Substation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fairmont Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fairmont Police Department averages 18.8 TCR (588% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Fairmont Police Department TCR series: 2020=26.8 · 2021=25.8 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=18.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Fairmont Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #63 safest of 71 Police departments (except Ame employers in Minnesota.

Fairmont Police Department (22 employees, TCR 18.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Fairmont Police Department
Fairmont Police Department (22 employees, TCR 18.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Fairmont Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 18.3 13.7 4 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 0 1 0
2021 25.8 25.8 0 5 0
2020 26.8 5.3 2 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MN · Fairmont

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 53 employers in Fairmont, 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 COH Police Department Central Patrol Substation 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Genoa - Police Department 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego 18.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunrise Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Emerald Spring Dairy, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Silverstreak Dairy LLC, Greenstreak Dairy 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dassel 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont 476 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3806 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3806 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairmont - Main Store 169 FTE
NAT-TCR Richland #045 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Greiner Buildings, Inc. 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Olympia East 18.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ABF Freight 221 18.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Marriott Mechanicsburg 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utility Service of Gainesville, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Su - Sugarhouse 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Southland Truck Group, LLC - Monroe 22 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.