Elementary schools · Minnesota

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School

Duluth, MN · ~83 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Elementary schools workplace, earning a grade B.

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School: 1.0 TCR = 72% of Elementary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School safety composite

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School: 0.0 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School's TCR rose 2.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 2.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Duluth, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.0 · 72% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #110/1589
  • PHOTO Forest Elementary
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Forest Elementary (0.0 TCR gap)

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ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School averages 1.0 TCR (72% of the Elementary schools BLS benchmark).

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

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=2 · BLS 1.4

Where ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary schools establishments

Safer than 93% 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 #110 safest of 1589 Elementary schools employers in Minnesota.

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School (83 employees, TCR 1.0) 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 Lester Park Elementary School
ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School (83 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

ISD 709 Lester Park Elementary School has more employees than the Elementary 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 2.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Duluth

3,374 Elementary 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 Forest Elementary 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Twin Lake Elementary School 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brien McMahon High School 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Monroe Township High School 1.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE King Gen Plant-PD 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE MVEC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hy-Tec Construction of Brainerd, Inc. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&D Construction, Inc. 83 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 El Dorado Service Center 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR LoJac LLC 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Norgren Automation Solutions 1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR John R. Stinson & Sons Inc 1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 722 Carbondale 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE 193 Concord 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcor Flexibles LLC 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Women's Health Services of Central Virginia 83 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.

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