Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities · Minnesota

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL

Buffalo, MN · ~53 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities workplace, earning a grade D.

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL: 6.1 TCR = 159% of Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS 3.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL safety composite

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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%).

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL held a steady TCR band

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 27.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=9.2 · 2022=27.0 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 159% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #99/240
  • PHOTO Rolling Ridge
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rolling Ridge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL averages 6.1 TCR (159% of the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3.2 · 2019=0 · 2020=9.2 · 2022=27 · 2023=3.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.8

Where Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #99 safest of 240 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in Minnesota.

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL (53 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0100200300 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL
Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL (53 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Great Lakes Management GTHI Cottagewood Buffalo AL has more employees than the Assisted-living facilities without on-si median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2022 27.0 27.0 1 8 0
2020 9.2 9.2 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.2 3.2 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · MN · Buffalo

6,510 Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 74 employers in Buffalo, 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 Rolling Ridge 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 60119 SUNRISE OF VIENNA 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 63150 SUNRISE OF HUNTCLIFF II 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2248-62014 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Ottawa 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Perham Breeder Farms 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wastewater Treatment Facility 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maertens- Brenny Construction Company 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1577 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1577 320 FTE
NAT-TCR S06806 - WI Somerset 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Warren County - Nutrition Dept - All Food Service Employees 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Twin Falls 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Devonshire Chatsworth 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE S03902 - Battle Creek Hauling 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rieke - New Albany 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03830 - WM of St Tammany 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bwfs Industries, LLC 53 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.