Nursing homes · Minnesota

Knute Nelson Care Center

Alexandria, MN · ~173 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Knute Nelson Care Center runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade D.

Knute Nelson Care Center: 10.2 TCR = 158% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Knute Nelson Care Center safety composite

Knute Nelson Care Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Knute Nelson Care Center: 4.1 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2022

Knute Nelson Care Center's TCR rose 12.6 from 4.1 in 2018 to 16.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Alexandria, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 11.1 DART
  • RANK #273/430
  • PHOTO Medicalodges Dewey
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Medicalodges Dewey (0.0 TCR gap)

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Knute Nelson Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Knute Nelson Care Center averages 10.2 TCR (158% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Knute Nelson Care Center TCR series: 2018=4.1 · 2020=10 · 2022=16.6 · BLS 6.5

Where Knute Nelson Care Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #273 safest of 430 Nursing homes employers in Minnesota.

Knute Nelson Care Center (173 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Knute Nelson Care Center
Knute Nelson Care Center (173 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Knute Nelson Care Center has more employees than the Nursing homes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2022 16.6 11.1 10 2 0
2020 10.0 7.8 9 0 0
2018 4.1 3.4 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · MN · Alexandria

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 86 employers in Alexandria, 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 Medicalodges Dewey 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pine Ridge Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Living Service Foundations - Mora 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bria Of Godfrey 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Belair Sitework Services 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rachel Contracting 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ralco Nutrition, Inc. 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Danfoss Power Solutions 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR Douglas County Hospital DBA Alomere Health 923 FTE
CITY-NEAR Douglas Machine Inc. 750 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alexandria Extrusion Company 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alexandria Technical and Community College 385 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0019-0018-00564 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Bus Facility 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 164230-La Grange Po 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 284235-Kcm-Parkville Sta 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00182 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-SWY-0019-0019-01659 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-SWY-0019-0019-01842 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-SWY-0027-0027-01546 173 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: 2022, 2020, 2018. 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.