K-12 Education · Minnesota

Melrose Area Public Schools

Melrose, MN · ~251 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Melrose Area Public Schools runs at 374% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical K-12 Education workplace, earning a grade F.

Melrose Area Public Schools: 5.2 TCR = 374% of K-12 Education BLS 1.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Melrose Area Public Schools safety composite

Melrose Area Public Schools scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−4.3

2020→2024

Melrose Area Public Schools injury rate improved

Melrose Area Public Schools's TCR fell 4.3 from 7.0 in 2020 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.0 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 374% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #1099/1589
  • PHOTO Bedford County Board…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~251 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bedford County Board of Education (0.0 TCR gap)

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Melrose Area Public Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Melrose Area Public Schools averages 5.2 TCR (374% of the K-12 Education BLS benchmark).

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

Melrose Area Public Schools TCR series: 2020=7 · 2021=6 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=5.3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 1.4

Where Melrose Area Public Schools falls in its industry

3,374 K-12 Education establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #1099 safest of 1589 K-12 Education employers in Minnesota.

Melrose Area Public Schools (251 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Melrose Area Public Schools
Melrose Area Public Schools (251 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Melrose Area Public Schools has more 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
2024 2.6 2.1 5 0 0
2023 5.3 2.4 8 1 0
2022 5.3 4.1 9 0 0
2021 6.0 3.6 9 1 0
2020 7.0 1.9 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Melrose

3,374 K-12 Education employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 24 employers in Melrose, 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 Bedford County Board of Education 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Claude Chester School 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Russell School 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charter Oak International Academy 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carley Foundry, Inc. 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peerless Chain - Winona 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2820 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE ISD 16 Spring Lake Park, SLPHS - Spring Lake Park HS 251 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose Plant 714 FTE
CITY-NEAR Melrose CentraCare Health 315 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare - Melrose 309 FTE
CITY-NEAR CentraCare Melrose 198 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 0571 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Santa Fe 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Missoula Electric Coop 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 10275 Interbay 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Green Bay Packaging Folding Carton Division 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1450 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bettis Asphalt & Construction, Inc. 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcor Packaging Inc. Joplin 251 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, 2021, 2020. 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.