Veterinary Services · Minnesota

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126

Apple Valley, MN · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 runs at 3564% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Veterinary Services workplace, earning a grade F.

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126: 17.8 TCR = 3564% of Veterinary Services BLS 0.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 safety composite

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126: 10.2 → 21.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 30.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126's TCR rose 11.2 from 10.2 in 2019 to 21.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 30.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541940 · Apple Valley, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 3564% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #16/29
  • PHOTO Best Friends Veterin…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Best Friends Veterinary Hospital (0.1 TCR gap)

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Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 averages 17.8 TCR (3564% of the Veterinary Services BLS benchmark).

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

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 TCR series: 2019=10.2 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=30.4 · 2024=21.3 · BLS 0.5

Where Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 falls in its industry

261 Veterinary Services establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 12.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 29 Veterinary Services employers in Minnesota.

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 (24 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126
Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 (24 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 126 has fewer employees than the Veterinary Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 12.0. 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 21.3 10.7 4 0 0
2023 30.4 0.0 6 0 0
2022 9.3 0.0 2 0 0
2019 10.2 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541940 · MN · Apple Valley

261 Veterinary Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 91 employers in Apple Valley, 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 Best Friends Veterinary Hospital 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mauer Animal Clinic 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group - 103 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lakefield Veterinary Group - 145 17.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Cottonwood Dairy 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE WPI-Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Production Services - Jackson 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Repairs and Maintenance 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Apple Valley 880 FTE
CITY-NEAR Uponor - Apple Valley 682 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2390 - Apple Valley South 521 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2642 416 FTE
NAT-TCR Event Rents Vail/Aspen 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethany Retirement Home, Inc. 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0011 Brea 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Astor Services for Children & Families- ECP- Beacon 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE William Anthony Excavating Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 255-11 Union Turnpike 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockbridge Go-Mart 114 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomas Cuisine @ ERC Colorado 24 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, 2022, 2019. 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.