Child day care centers · Minnesota

Freeborn County

Albert Lea, MN · ~240 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freeborn County runs at 51% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Child day care centers workplace, earning a grade B.

Freeborn County: 1.9 TCR = 51% of Child day care centers BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freeborn County safety composite

Freeborn County scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2021→2024

Freeborn County injury rate improved

Freeborn County's TCR fell 0.4 from 0.4 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624410 · Albert Lea, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 51% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/62
  • PHOTO 301503 KINDERCARE
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~240 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 301503 KINDERCARE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freeborn County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freeborn County averages 1.9 TCR (51% of the Child day care centers BLS benchmark).

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

Freeborn County TCR series: 2021=0.4 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=3.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Freeborn County falls in its industry

272 Child day care centers establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 62 Child day care centers employers in Minnesota.

Freeborn County (240 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 0100200300400500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Freeborn County
Freeborn County (240 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Freeborn County has more employees than the Child day care centers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.9 1.7 13 1 0
2022 3.5 1.7 8 4 0
2021 0.4 0.2 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624410 · MN · Albert Lea

272 Child day care centers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 301503 KINDERCARE 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR The West Center 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kinderberry Hill #08 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Learning Tree - Howell 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rochester Meat Company 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Toro Company - Shakopee 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE SFM Mutual Insurance Company 240 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Department of Transportation District 8 240 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lou-Rich Front Street 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Schreiber Foods Inc. - Grand Rapids 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Good Metals Company 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Gipson Steel, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR California Temp Services, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Supply Chain Greenville SC 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Topeka Traffic Center 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Berry Global 240 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pirelli Tire LLC 240 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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