Elementary and secondary schools · Minnesota

Forest Lake Area Education Center

Forest Lake, MN · ~117 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forest Lake Area Education Center runs at 156% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade D.

Forest Lake Area Education Center: 2.2 TCR = 156% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forest Lake Area Education Center safety composite

Forest Lake Area Education Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Forest Lake Area Education Center: 1.4 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2024

Forest Lake Area Education Center's TCR rose 1.6 from 1.4 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Forest Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.2 · 156% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #441/1589
  • PHOTO Austin Public School…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin Public Schools ISD #492 Woodson School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forest Lake Area Education Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forest Lake Area Education Center averages 2.2 TCR (156% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Forest Lake Area Education Center TCR series: 2023=1.4 · 2024=3 · BLS 1.4

Where Forest Lake Area Education Center falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #441 safest of 1589 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Minnesota.

Forest Lake Area Education Center (117 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Forest Lake Area Education Center
Forest Lake Area Education Center (117 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Forest Lake Area Education Center has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 3.0 3.0 2 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Forest Lake

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 71 employers in Forest Lake, 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 Austin Public Schools ISD #492 Woodson School 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IND SCHOOL DIST 84 SLEEPY EYE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Downtown Doral Charter Elementary School 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Albany Elementary 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE WLS NextEra Analytics St Paul 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gardner Builders 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chard Excavating 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laketown Electric Corporation 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest Lake YMCA 1,477 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2274 451 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2274 399 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vinco, Inc. 288 FTE
NAT-TCR San Francisco 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Guardian Fabrication LLC 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Stock Yards Phoenix 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Express Inc 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Haskells Hardware LLC 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Azpre - Prescott Valley 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flvro - Vero Beach 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohmrn - Marion 117 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. 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.