Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction · Minnesota

Highway

Buffalo, MN · ~53 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Highway runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Highway: 4.0 TCR = 142% of Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Highway safety composite

Highway scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−3.4

2023→2024

Highway injury rate improved

Highway's TCR fell 3.4 from 5.7 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.7 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 142% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #56/107
  • PHOTO John Schnittker (MI)
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John Schnittker (MI) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Highway in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Highway averages 4.0 TCR (142% of the Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction BLS benchmark).

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

Highway TCR series: 2023=5.7 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Highway falls in its industry

4,078 Highway, Street, and Bridge Co establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #56 safest of 107 Highway, Street, and Bridge Co employers in Minnesota.

Highway (53 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Highway
Highway (53 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Highway has fewer employees than the Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2023 5.7 5.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MN · Buffalo

4,078 Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction 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 John Schnittker (MI) 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TAYLORSPORT 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tobey Construction 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartier Location 4.0 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 Jane Hatchery 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlinville Area Hospital 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Catfish Company 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jessup Md 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Derse Chicago 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merrill Gardens at Brentwood 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Hartford 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. 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.