Veterinary Services · Minnesota

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153

Apple Valley, MN · ~57 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153 runs at 2094% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Veterinary Services workplace, earning a grade F.

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153: 10.5 TCR = 2094% of Veterinary Services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153 safety composite

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153 scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 10.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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 - 153: 4.6 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153's TCR rose 9.6 from 4.6 in 2022 to 14.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× 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 10.5 · 2094% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/29
  • PHOTO Lakefield Veterinary…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakefield Veterinary Group - 125 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153 averages 10.5 TCR (2094% 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 - 153 TCR series: 2022=4.6 · 2023=12.7 · 2024=14.2 · BLS 0.5

Where Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153 falls in its industry

261 Veterinary Services establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #10 safest of 29 Veterinary Services employers in Minnesota.

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153 (57 employees, TCR 10.5) 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 - 153
Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153 (57 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 12.0

Lakefield Veterinary Group - 153 has more employees than the Veterinary Services median and a lower 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 14.2 0.0 8 0 0
2023 12.7 3.2 4 0 0
2022 4.6 2.3 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 Lakefield Veterinary Group - 125 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Angell - Boston 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Companion Animal Veterinary Associates 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harmony Vet Care 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Midwest Maintenance & Mechanical, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE TCC-Blaine 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Shore Track Services 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aid Electric Corporation 57 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 Orgill Tifton Distribution Center 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR The Victus Group/Holiday Inn Conference Center Marshfield 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Howard Wi - 3294 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 122 - Santa Maria 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Quality Bakery 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Youngs Farm- The Annex Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aspirus Tivoli Community 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Online Airport Transfers LLC 57 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. 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.