Independent School District · Minnesota

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary

Litchfield, MN · ~111 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary runs at 164% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Independent School District workplace, earning a grade D.

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary: 2.3 TCR = 164% of Independent School District BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary safety composite

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary: 1.6 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary's TCR rose 4.5 from 1.6 in 2017 to 6.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Litchfield, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.3 · 164% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #471/1589
  • PHOTO Thunder Mountain Hig…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thunder Mountain High school (0.0 TCR gap)

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Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary averages 2.3 TCR (164% of the Independent School District BLS benchmark).

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

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=1.5 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=6.1 · BLS 1.4

Where Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary falls in its industry

3,374 Independent School District establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #471 safest of 1589 Independent School District employers in Minnesota.

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary (111 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary
Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary (111 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary has more employees than the Independent School District median and a lower 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 6.1 0.0 4 0 0
2022 3.1 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.3 0.0 1 0 0
2019 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2018 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Litchfield

3,374 Independent School District employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 48 employers in Litchfield, 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 Thunder Mountain High school 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CONANT HIGH SCHOOL 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 010 - Stout Field Elementary 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 017 - OIS Operations Center 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Side Jersey Dairy - Woodbury 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Flame Metals Processing Corporation 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Co-operative Plating 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litchfield ISD #465 358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Litchfield, MN 332 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bobcat Doosan Litchfield 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4374 214 FTE
NAT-TCR Garden State Growers LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alltrista Plastics LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Component Assembly Systems Maryland 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynchburg Svc Ctr 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Southern Energy Management 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Topeka Ks Plant 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE GENERON 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE County Market #329 111 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.