Elementary and secondary schools · Minnesota

Highland Elementary School

Apple Valley, MN · ~95 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highland Elementary School runs at 494% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Highland Elementary School: 6.9 TCR = 494% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highland Elementary School safety composite

Highland Elementary School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 21%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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

Highland Elementary School: 6.4 → 10.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2024

Highland Elementary School's TCR rose 3.8 from 6.4 in 2019 to 10.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Apple Valley, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.9 · 494% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #1301/1589
  • PHOTO Regional School Unit…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Regional School Unit #89 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highland Elementary School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highland Elementary School averages 6.9 TCR (494% 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

Highland Elementary School TCR series: 2019=6.4 · 2020=3.2 · 2021=10.2 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 1.4

Where Highland Elementary School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #1301 safest of 1589 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Minnesota.

Highland Elementary School (95 employees, TCR 6.9) 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 Highland Elementary School
Highland Elementary School (95 employees, TCR 6.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Highland Elementary School has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a higher 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 10.2 1.7 6 0 0
2023 6.5 0.0 4 0 0
2022 5.1 0.0 3 0 0
2021 10.2 1.7 5 1 0
2020 3.2 0.0 2 0 0
2019 6.4 4.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Apple Valley

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 91 employers in Apple Valley, 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 Regional School Unit #89 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1459-0166 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAGS HEAD ELEMENTARY 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lower School 6.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE A.S. King Plant 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE White Bear Lake Service Center 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE ONE WAY WIRELESS CONSTRUCTION 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Apple Valley 880 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uponor - Apple Valley 682 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2390 - Apple Valley South 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2642 416 FTE
NAT-TCR The Berkeley 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CityGate Hospitality LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Graf Electric Inc. 6.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Media One Logistics LLC 6.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5114 - AZ ASPC Phoenix - NaphCare AZ 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aps-Alamance Physician Care 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herzog Contracting Corp - KC Streetcar Constructors 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Running Pump Road 95 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.