High schools · Minnesota

ISD 709 Denfeld High School

Duluth, MN · ~146 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ISD 709 Denfeld High School runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical High schools workplace, earning a grade D.

ISD 709 Denfeld High School: 2.2 TCR = 154% of High schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ISD 709 Denfeld High School safety composite

ISD 709 Denfeld High School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2023→2024

ISD 709 Denfeld High School injury rate improved

ISD 709 Denfeld High School's TCR fell 0.4 from 2.4 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.4 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.2 · 154% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #432/1589
  • PHOTO Edgewood Elementary …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Edgewood Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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ISD 709 Denfeld High School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ISD 709 Denfeld High School averages 2.2 TCR (154% of the High schools BLS benchmark).

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

ISD 709 Denfeld High School TCR series: 2023=2.4 · 2024=2 · BLS 1.4

Where ISD 709 Denfeld High School falls in its industry

3,374 High schools establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #432 safest of 1589 High schools employers in Minnesota.

ISD 709 Denfeld High School (146 employees, TCR 2.2) 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 ISD 709 Denfeld High School
ISD 709 Denfeld High School (146 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

ISD 709 Denfeld High School has more employees than the High schools median and a lower 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 2.0 1.0 2 0 0
2023 2.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Duluth

3,374 High schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 340 employers in Duluth, 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 Edgewood Elementary School 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christina Huddleston Elem (CHE) 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD #36 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Waterbury Arts Magnet School 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Horizon Roofing, Inc 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernatello's Pizza, Inc 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE ME Global - Duluth 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Faribault Plant 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Duluth 1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR Gabfo - Buford Distribution Ctr - 11958 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Tnsel - Selmer 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Gamrw - Ups Mail Innovations Rpf 13 - 10303 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0008 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wichita Operations Center 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Geneva 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Snyder Construction LLC 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stellar Manufacturing, LLC 146 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.