Middle schools · Minnesota

Forest Lake Area Middle School

Forest Lake, MN · ~128 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forest Lake Area Middle School runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Middle schools workplace, earning a grade A.

Forest Lake Area Middle School: 0.6 TCR = 41% of Middle schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forest Lake Area Middle School safety composite

Forest Lake Area Middle School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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 Middle School: 0.0 → 1.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

Forest Lake Area Middle School's TCR rose 1.1 from 0.0 in 2023 to 1.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Forest Lake, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 41% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #36/1589
  • PHOTO Oak View Middle
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~128 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oak View Middle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forest Lake Area Middle School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forest Lake Area Middle School averages 0.6 TCR (41% of the Middle schools BLS benchmark).

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

Forest Lake Area Middle School TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 1.4

Where Forest Lake Area Middle School falls in its industry

3,374 Middle schools establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #36 safest of 1589 Middle schools employers in Minnesota.

Forest Lake Area Middle School (128 employees, TCR 0.6) 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 Middle School
Forest Lake Area Middle School (128 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Forest Lake Area Middle School has more employees than the Middle 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 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Forest Lake

3,374 Middle 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 Oak View Middle 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Milford Public Schools Central Office 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Smith 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dickson County Board of Education 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Met-Con Construction 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Flexible Corporation 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pace Industries, St. Paul Division 128 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4039-02834000-00W002 128 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 Utilitra LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Xylem Dewatering Solutions, Inc. 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Roberts Company, Inc 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Marcus & Millichap Company 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kresson View 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glendale Heights Il Sales Center 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hayward Ca Distribution Center 128 FTE
NAT-SIZE Casra - San Rafael Center 128 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.