County supervisors' and executives' offices · Minnesota

Meeker County Highway Department

Name: Meeker County Highway Department Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Litchfield, MN · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.2
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Meeker County Highway Department runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical County supervisors' and executives' offices workplace, earning a grade D.

Meeker County Highway Department: 6.2 TCR = 193% of County supervisors' and executives' offices BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meeker County Highway Department safety composite

Meeker County Highway Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: F 8.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Meeker County Highway Department: 0.0 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2018

Meeker County Highway Department's TCR rose 12.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 12.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Litchfield, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 193% of ind

DART 8.2 DART
RANK #81/139
PHOTO HARFORD CO GOVT
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HARFORD CO GOVT (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.2
HARFORD CO GOV

6.2
Village of Add

6.2
City of Spring

6.2
City of Corval

6.2

What this shows Meeker County Highway Department averages 6.2 TCR (193% of the County supervisors' and executives' offices BLS benchmark).

Meeker County Highway Department TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=12.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Meeker County Highway Department falls in its industry

1,010 County supervisors' and execut establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #81 safest of 139 County supervisors' and execut employers in Minnesota.

Meeker County Highway Department (30 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Meeker County Highway Department has fewer employees than the County supervisors' and executives' offi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2018	12.4	8.2	3	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · MN · Litchfield

1,010 County supervisors' and executives' offices 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	HARFORD CO GOVT	BEL AIR, MD	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Village of Addison	ADDISON, IL	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Springfield IL	SPRINGFIELD, IL	6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Corvallis	CORVALLIS, OR	6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Nelson Nursery	ZIMMERMAN	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Northern Plains Dairy	ST PETER	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	United Dairy, Westland Dairy	RICHMOND	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Pipestone Grow Finish	PIPESTONE	30 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Litchfield ISD #465	Litchfield	358 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Litchfield, MN	Litchfield	332 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Bobcat Doosan Litchfield	Litchfield	293 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 4374	Litchfield	214 FTE
NAT-TCR	RGH Enterprises - Portland, OR	Portland, OR	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Shopko Store #128 (Kalispell, MT)	Kalispell, MT	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Chicago (HR)	Chicago, IL	6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Penske : 4697-00 Cardinal/Montgomery, NY	Montgomery, NY	6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Belvedere Commons Tampa	Tampa, FL	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Tecta Hanover	Billerica, MA	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Chesapeake	Chesapeake, VA	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Brookdale Rocky Mount	Rocky Mount, NC	30 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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