K-12 Education · Minnesota

Lester Prairie Elem. School

Lester Prairie, MN · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lester Prairie Elem. School runs at 384% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical K-12 Education workplace, earning a grade F.

Lester Prairie Elem. School: 5.4 TCR = 384% of K-12 Education BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lester Prairie Elem. School safety composite

Lester Prairie Elem. School scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.3

2017→2019

Lester Prairie Elem. School injury rate improved

Lester Prairie Elem. School's TCR fell 5.3 from 10.7 in 2017 to 5.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Lester Prairie, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.4 · 384% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1127/1589
  • PHOTO BEMIDJI MIDDLE SCHOOL
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BEMIDJI MIDDLE SCHOOL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lester Prairie Elem. School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lester Prairie Elem. School averages 5.4 TCR (384% of the K-12 Education BLS benchmark).

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

Lester Prairie Elem. School TCR series: 2017=10.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=5.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Lester Prairie Elem. School falls in its industry

3,374 K-12 Education establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #1127 safest of 1589 K-12 Education employers in Minnesota.

Lester Prairie Elem. School (25 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 Lester Prairie Elem. School
Lester Prairie Elem. School (25 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Lester Prairie Elem. School 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
2019 5.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 10.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Lester Prairie

3,374 K-12 Education employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 10 employers in Lester Prairie, 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 BEMIDJI MIDDLE SCHOOL 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Luverne Elementary School 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR E. P. Todd School 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Osseo Middle School 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Hutchinson, MN 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Park Rapids Trucking 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN IPH 03-0110-10, 50, 51, 52, 970 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Liquibox Lester Prairie 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR DS Smith (World Wide Dispensers) Lester Prairie 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lester Building Systems, LLC LP 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lester Prairie Public School 67 FTE
NAT-TCR Cottage Grove Southern Campus 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kane County 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Huntington Library 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Citi Bike Jersey City 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Omega Home 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE DGS-VDC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Precise Striping LLC 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Tool Company 25 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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