Academies, junior college · Minnesota

Lake Superior College

Name: Lake Superior College Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Duluth, MN · ~537 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 1.6
Avg TCR: 1.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Lake Superior College runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Academies, junior college workplace, earning a grade C.

Lake Superior College: 1.6 TCR = 116% of Academies, junior college BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Superior College safety composite

Lake Superior College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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).

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 1.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers
DART rate: F 1 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Lake Superior College held a steady TCR band

Lake Superior College's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.3 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.3 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.6 · 116% of ind

DART 1.0 DART
RANK #25/40
PHOTO Chemeketa Community …
BOOK 3y book
INJ 15 inj
SIZE ~537 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chemeketa Community College, Woodburn (0.0 TCR gap)

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Liberal Arts C

1.7
This site

1.6
Chemeketa Comm

1.6
John Wood Comm

1.6
COLLEGE OF DUP

1.6

What this shows Lake Superior College averages 1.6 TCR (116% of the Academies, junior college BLS benchmark).

Lake Superior College TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=1.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Lake Superior College falls in its industry

127 Academies, junior college establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 40 Academies, junior college employers in Minnesota.

Lake Superior College (537 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Lake Superior College has more employees than the Academies, junior college median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2019	1.7	1.0	5
2018	1.9	1.6	6
2017	1.3	0.7	4

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · MN · Duluth

127 Academies, junior college 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Chemeketa Community College, Woodburn	WOODBURN, OR	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	John Wood Community College	QUINCY, IL	1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Liberal Arts Campus and Pacific Coast Campus	LONG BEACH, CA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	COLLEGE OF DUPAGE #502	GLEN ELLYN, IL	1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	AmesburyTruth - Owatonna	OWATONNA	537 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Viking Automatic Sprinkler Company	SAINT PAUL	536 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Smithfield St. James, MN	ST. JAMES	536 FTE
STATE-SIZE	SkyWater Technology Foundry	BLOOMINGTON	536 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St Mary's Medical Center	Duluth	3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth	Duluth	3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center	Duluth	1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR	University of Minnesota Duluth	Duluth	1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR	US Corrugated Santa Fe Springs	Santa Fe Springs, CA	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	PTR	Enfield, CT	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Shopko Store #91 (Logan, UT)	Logan, UT	1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Whitlock - Durham	Durham, NC	1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	JACK Thistledown Racino	N. Randall, OH	537 FTE
NAT-SIZE	IB Tech	Bucyrus, OH	537 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Republic National Distributing Company 4	Littleton, CO	537 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amzl : Dsf5	South San Francisco, CA	537 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.

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