Community colleges · Minnesota

MnSCU Central Lakes College

Brainerd, MN · ~202 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MnSCU Central Lakes College runs at 474% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Community colleges workplace, earning a grade F.

MnSCU Central Lakes College: 6.6 TCR = 474% of Community colleges BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MnSCU Central Lakes College safety composite

MnSCU Central Lakes College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

MnSCU Central Lakes College: 6.6 → 5420.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5420.1 TCR · DART/TCR 81.63× in 2023

MnSCU Central Lakes College's TCR rose 5413.4 from 6.6 in 2022 to 5420.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 81.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Brainerd, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 474% of ind

  • DART 542.0 DART
  • RANK #40/40
  • PHOTO Thomas Nelson - Will…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thomas Nelson - Williamburg (0.7 TCR gap)

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MnSCU Central Lakes College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MnSCU Central Lakes College averages 6.6 TCR (474% of the Community colleges BLS benchmark).

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

MnSCU Central Lakes College TCR series: 2022=6.6 · 2023=5420.1 · BLS 1.4

Where MnSCU Central Lakes College falls in its industry

127 Community colleges establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 40 Community colleges employers in Minnesota.

MnSCU Central Lakes College (202 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate MnSCU Central Lakes College
MnSCU Central Lakes College (202 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

MnSCU Central Lakes College has fewer employees than the Community colleges median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 5420.1 542.0 9 1 0
2022 6.6 0.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · MN · Brainerd

127 Community colleges employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Brainerd, 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 Thomas Nelson - Williamburg 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joliet Junior College 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Capital Community College 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Middlesex Community College 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ventura Foods 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metal-Matic, LLC Minneapolis Plant 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pequot Tool & Mfg., Inc. 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEAM Industries Audubon 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Josephs Medical Center 1,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crow Wing County 522 FTE
CITY-NEAR Madden's on Gull Lake 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central Lakes Colloege - Brainerd and Staples Campuses 258 FTE
NAT-TCR Mesa Office 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR G. & H. Contracting, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Parrett Mfg., Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Copiah Living Center 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Electrochem Solutions Inc. 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Fort Miller Co., Inc. 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Jacksonville 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Green Bay Packaging Inc. Kalamazoo Division 202 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. 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.