K-12 Education · Minnesota

Le Center K-8

Le Center, MN · ~72 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Le Center K-8 runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical K-12 Education workplace, earning a grade F.

Le Center K-8: 4.4 TCR = 317% of K-12 Education BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Le Center K-8 safety composite

Le Center K-8 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

D

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Le Center K-8: 1.9 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.43× in 2023

Le Center K-8's TCR rose 5.7 from 1.9 in 2017 to 7.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Le Center, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.4 · 317% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #982/1589
  • PHOTO Black Hawk Middle Sc…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Black Hawk Middle School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Le Center K-8 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Le Center K-8 averages 4.4 TCR (317% of the K-12 Education BLS benchmark).

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

Le Center K-8 TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=5.5 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=2.1 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=7.6 · BLS 1.4

Where Le Center K-8 falls in its industry

3,374 K-12 Education establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #982 safest of 1589 K-12 Education employers in Minnesota.

Le Center K-8 (72 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Le Center K-8
Le Center K-8 (72 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Le Center K-8 has fewer employees than the K-12 Education median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2023 7.6 1.9 4 0 0
2022 5.8 0.0 3 0 0
2020 2.1 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.8 0.0 1 1 0
2018 5.5 0.0 3 0 0
2017 1.9 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Le Center

3,374 K-12 Education employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 15 employers in Le Center, 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 Black Hawk Middle School 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Catlin Gabel School 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dundee-Crown High School 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 16 Spring Lake Park, CVES Centerview Elementary School 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Jackson JAC1 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACI Asphalt and Concrete, Inc. 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Electrical Production Services Inc 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minnesota Soybean Processors 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Le Sueur County 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maud Borup Inc Le Center 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maud Borup Inc 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dianne's Fine Desserts 176 FTE
NAT-TCR Overton Chicago Gear - Chicago 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Uss Upi 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR American House - Hendersonville 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR GM Construction, INc. 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Merichem Process Technologies 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wakefield Health Care Center 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Banner Metalcraft Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE FWA 72 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 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.