Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability · Minnesota

Karcher Foster Services

North Branch, MN · ~86 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Karcher Foster Services runs at 342% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability workplace, earning a grade F.

Karcher Foster Services: 13.0 TCR = 342% of Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Karcher Foster Services safety composite

Karcher Foster Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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).

F

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Karcher Foster Services: 14.9 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2019

Karcher Foster Services's TCR rose 0.9 from 14.9 in 2017 to 15.8 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623210 · North Branch, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 342% of ind

  • DART 14.3 DART
  • RANK #100/112
  • PHOTO Thayer
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thayer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Karcher Foster Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Karcher Foster Services averages 13.0 TCR (342% of the Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability BLS benchmark).

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

Karcher Foster Services TCR series: 2017=14.9 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=15.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Karcher Foster Services falls in its industry

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #100 safest of 112 Group homes, intellectual and employers in Minnesota.

Karcher Foster Services (86 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Karcher Foster Services
Karcher Foster Services (86 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Karcher Foster Services has more employees than the Group homes, intellectual and developmen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2019 15.8 14.3 11 0 0
2018 8.3 8.3 6 0 0
2017 14.9 11.2 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623210 · MN · North Branch

2,261 Group homes, intellectual and developmental disability employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 30 employers in North Branch, 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 Thayer 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cunningham / Fahey 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belle Vernon ICF 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elmgrove Crossing Day Services 13.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 34 RECC 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Palmer Soderberg, Inc. 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Drilling 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lloyd's Construction Services, Inc. 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Branch Extrusion - CORP 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Andersen Corporation - North Branch 195 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ecumen North Branch 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Market North Branch - 5609 95 FTE
NAT-TCR 424 ABC Supply Co., inc 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Frisco Memory Care, LLC 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Dog Salvage 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Somerset Rehabilitation & Living Center 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Xl Concrete Masonry - Reno 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Classic Graphics, LLC - Morrisville 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rizzo Packaging, Inc. 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gandys - Lubbock (Dean) 86 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.