K-12 Education · Minnesota

Independence Elementary

Name: Independence Elementary Workplace Safety Data
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Big Lake, MN · ~97 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 12.7
Avg TCR: 1.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Independence Elementary runs at 904% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical K-12 Education workplace, earning a grade F.

Independence Elementary: 12.7 TCR = 904% of K-12 Education BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Independence Elementary safety composite

Independence Elementary scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 12.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Independence Elementary: 5.0 → 20.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 29.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.33× in 2024

Independence Elementary's TCR rose 16.0 from 5.0 in 2017 to 20.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 29.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Big Lake, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 904% of ind

DART 4.2 DART
RANK #1517/1589
PHOTO Transition Plus School
BOOK 7y book
INJ 58 inj
SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Transition Plus School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Warroad High S

12.6

What this shows Independence Elementary averages 12.7 TCR (904% of the K-12 Education BLS benchmark).

Independence Elementary TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=6.5 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=12.8 · 2023=29.1 · 2024=20.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Independence Elementary falls in its industry

3,374 K-12 Education establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1517 safest of 1589 K-12 Education employers in Minnesota.

Independence Elementary (97 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Independence Elementary has more employees than the K-12 Education 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
2024	20.9	4.2	15
2023	29.1	4.4	20
2022	12.8	0.0	8
2021	9.4	3.1	6
2020	4.8	1.6	3
2018	6.5	2.2	3
2017	5.0	1.7	3

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Big Lake

3,374 K-12 Education employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 31 employers in Big Lake, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Transition Plus School	APPLE VALLEY, MN	12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Primary School	ZUMBROTA, MN	12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Webster Hill Elementary School	WEST HARTFORD, CT	12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Warroad High School	WARROAD, MN	12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Crow Wing Power	BRAINERD	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Newport Service Center-NB	NEWPORT	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Perham, MN (AEIS)	PERHAM	97 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Premise,Inc.	MINNEAPOLIS	97 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Minnesota Limited	Big Lake	849 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2031 Coborn's Big Lake	Big Lake	152 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Premier Marine LLC	Big Lake	142 FTE
CITY-NEAR	AES Arconic Big Lake	Big Lake	125 FTE
NAT-TCR	ABF Freight 279	Pine Brook, NJ	12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jack Walters & Sons Corp. - Fairfield	Fairfield, IL	12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	TRH007	Windsor, CT	12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	4002 - Eau Claire Truss Plant	Eau Claire, WI	12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Altercare of Ohio, Inc.	North Canton, OH	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Dedicated Fayetteville	Fayetteville, NC	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nuwool Company Inc	Jenison, MI	97 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pavilion Furniture	Miami, FL	97 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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