General public administration · Minnesota

Mower County - Government Center

Name: Mower County - Government Center Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Austin, MN · ~222 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.7
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Mower County - Government Center runs at 54% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade B.

Mower County - Government Center: 1.7 TCR = 54% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mower County - Government Center safety composite

Mower County - Government Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 1.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Mower County - Government Center: 1.2 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Mower County - Government Center's TCR rose 1.1 from 1.2 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Austin, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 54% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #57/275
PHOTO City Clerk's Office
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~222 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City Clerk's Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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City Clerk's O

1.7
City of Pipest

1.7
King County El

1.7
NN Department

1.7

What this shows Mower County - Government Center averages 1.7 TCR (54% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

Mower County - Government Center TCR series: 2023=1.2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Mower County - Government Center falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 275 General public administration employers in Minnesota.

Mower County - Government Center (222 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Mower County - Government Center has more employees than the General public administration median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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	2.3	0.0	2	2	0
2023	1.2	0.6	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Austin

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Austin, 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	City Clerk's Office	TUCSON, AZ	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Pipestone	PIPESTONE, MN	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	King County Elections	SEATTLE, WA	1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	NN Department of Development	NEWPORT NEWS, VA	1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Corporate Office	SLEEPY EYE	222 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Carl Bolander & Sons Co.	ST. PAUL	222 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Protolabs - Brooklyn Park	BROOKLYN PARK	222 FTE
STATE-SIZE	0260 - St Louis Park	MINNEAPOLIS	222 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hormel Foods - Austin	Austin	1,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hormel Foods - Austin Plant	Austin	1,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hormel Foods Corporation	Austin	1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Quality Pork Processors Inc.	Austin	1,208 FTE
NAT-TCR	Pratt (Converting Division Memphis) , LLC	Memphis, TN	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Century Aluminum Sebree LLC	Robards, KY	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Wilmington	Wilmington, OH	1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	NAES : Astoria 1	Astoria, NY	1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Berry Global Waxahachie	Waxahachie, TX	222 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Otis Elevator Company-Manhattan South	New York, NY	222 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Katy, Tx (OPD Office/Shop)	Katy, TX	222 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sysco Pittsburgh	Harmony, PA	222 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.