Public health program administration, nonoperating · Minnesota

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab

St. Paul, MN · ~159 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab runs at 29% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Public health program administration, nonoperating workplace, earning a grade A.

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab: 0.9 TCR = 29% of Public health program administration, nonoperating BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab safety composite

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab: 0.8 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.8 in 2022 to 1.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 923120 · St. Paul, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 29% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #10/29
  • PHOTO Public Health Depart…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Health Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab averages 0.9 TCR (29% of the Public health program administration, nonoperating BLS benchmark).

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

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab TCR series: 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=1.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab falls in its industry

267 Public health program administ establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 29 Public health program administ employers in Minnesota.

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab (159 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab
Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab (159 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Minnesota Department of Health - Public Health Lab has more employees than the Public health program administration, no median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.3 0.7 1 1 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 0.8 0.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

923120 · MN · St. Paul

267 Public health program administration, nonoperating employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 370 employers in St. Paul, 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 Public Health Department 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR MEDICAL EXAMINER 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Concentric 1575 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wayne 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elk River Campus 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis SE Storage-TJ 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rich Products Fridley 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE American Surplus & Mfg., Inc (Ice Castle Fish Houses) 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR YCID 5,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boston Scientific CRM 5,100 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Hospital 3,384 FTE
CITY-NEAR IT Campus 2,409 FTE
NAT-TCR Protect Plus Industries LC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Steel Dynamics Roanoke Bar Division 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Fredericksburg VA Truss 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store 1792 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Region VII AAA 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schuler Books 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International 159 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.