Academies, college or university · Minnesota

Minnesota West Community & Technical College

Canby, MN · ~236 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Minnesota West Community & Technical College runs at 105% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade C.

Minnesota West Community & Technical College: 1.5 TCR = 105% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Minnesota West Community & Technical College safety composite

Minnesota West Community & Technical College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Minnesota West Community & Technical College: 1.2 → 1.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2018

Minnesota West Community & Technical College's TCR rose 0.6 from 1.2 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Canby, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.5 · 105% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #20/47
  • PHOTO 482 SOUTHEASTERN ILL…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~236 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 482 SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Minnesota West Community & Technical College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Minnesota West Community & Technical College averages 1.5 TCR (105% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

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

Minnesota West Community & Technical College TCR series: 2017=1.2 · 2018=1.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Minnesota West Community & Technical College falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 47 Academies, college or universi employers in Minnesota.

Minnesota West Community & Technical College (236 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Minnesota West Community & Technical College
Minnesota West Community & Technical College (236 employees, TCR 1.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Minnesota West Community & Technical College has fewer employees than the Academies, college or university median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 1.8 0.9 3 1 0
2017 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · MN · Canby

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 11 employers in Canby, 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 482 SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS COLLEGE 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Illinois at Chicago 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linfield College 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dallas Baptist University 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Danny's Construction Company LLC 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2032 Coborn's Pine Cone 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winona - Main Store 236 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jefferson Lines 236 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN,Canby-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN,CANBY - Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN,CANBY - Campus - Nursing Care Facilities (Skilled Nursing Facilities) 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR MINNESOTA WEST COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE Canby 71 FTE
NAT-TCR AC Home Depot US 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR JLM Advanced Tech. Service 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR ACS_INDIANAPOLIS_IN 1.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrisburg Branch 1.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Muskogee Plant #3 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpharetta, George 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alto Yarn 236 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 236 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.