Ambulance services, air or ground · Minnesota

Gold Cross Albert Lea

Albert Lea, MN · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gold Cross Albert Lea runs at 584% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

Gold Cross Albert Lea: 22.2 TCR = 584% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gold Cross Albert Lea safety composite

Gold Cross Albert Lea scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 22.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.8

2017→2018

Gold Cross Albert Lea injury rate improved

Gold Cross Albert Lea's TCR fell 7.8 from 26.1 in 2017 to 18.3 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 26.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=26.1 · 2018=18.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Albert Lea, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 22.2 · 584% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #24/27
  • PHOTO Lapeer County EMS St…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lapeer County EMS Station 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gold Cross Albert Lea in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gold Cross Albert Lea averages 22.2 TCR (584% of the Ambulance services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Gold Cross Albert Lea TCR series: 2017=26.1 · 2018=18.3 · BLS 3.8

Where Gold Cross Albert Lea falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 27 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in Minnesota.

Gold Cross Albert Lea (22 employees, TCR 22.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Gold Cross Albert Lea
Gold Cross Albert Lea (22 employees, TCR 22.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Gold Cross Albert Lea has fewer employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2018 18.3 11.0 5 0 0
2017 26.1 17.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · MN · Albert Lea

976 Ambulance services, air or ground 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 Lapeer County EMS Station 1 22.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Georgia EMSOperations 22.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PT1-Santa Clara 22.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community EMS - Mansfield 22.1 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-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 United Methodist Homes Tunkhannock Manor 22.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0791 Morrisville 22.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Sandcastle Hotel on the Beach 22.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wpax 0045 (Collins Ln - F) 22.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE DSAR Lamar 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Air Filter Sales and Services, Inc. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE MacDonald & Owen Sparta 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE REN171 Chandler 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: 2018, 2017. 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.