General services departments, government · Minnesota

Mower County - Public Works

Name: Mower County - Public Works Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Austin, MN · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.2
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Mower County - Public Works runs at 318% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Mower County - Public Works: 10.2 TCR = 318% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mower County - Public Works safety composite

Mower County - Public Works scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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).

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 10.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.7

2023→2024

Mower County - Public Works injury rate improved

Mower County - Public Works's TCR fell 10.7 from 15.5 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=15.5 · 2024=4.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Austin, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 318% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #216/275
PHOTO City of El Centro
BOOK 2y book
INJ 7 inj
SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of El Centro (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Mower County - Public Works averages 10.2 TCR (318% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

Mower County - Public Works TCR series: 2023=15.5 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Mower County - Public Works falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #216 safest of 275 General services departments, employers in Minnesota.

Mower County - Public Works (44 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Mower County - Public Works has fewer employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher 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	4.8	0.0	2	0	0
2023	15.5	12.4	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Austin

1,496 General services departments, government 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 of El Centro	EL CENTRO, CA	10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City Government - General Government	KNOXVILLE, TN	10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Turlock	TURLOCK, CA	10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Noblesville	NOBLESVILLE, IN	10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	West River	MORRIS	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Monticello Training Ctr-LL	MONTICELLO	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Water Treatment Facility	BELLE PLAINE	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WasteWater Treatment Facility	BELLE PLAINE	44 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	Gonnella Baking Company	Aurora, IL	10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	144 Reno	Reno, NV	10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gear Motions	Syracuse, NY	10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sun Fiber LLC	Richburg, SC	10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Nuclear Sources and Services, Inc	Houston, TX	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	D.A. Drenner Concrete, Inc.	Jessup, MD	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Sweet Galilee at the Wigwam	Anderson, IN	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Palm Coast	Palm Coast, FL	44 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.