Elementary and secondary schools · Minnesota

Northfield High School

Northfield, MN · ~155 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northfield High School runs at 381% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Northfield High School: 5.3 TCR = 381% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northfield High School safety composite

Northfield High School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2023→2024

Northfield High School injury rate improved

Northfield High School's TCR fell 2.8 from 6.7 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=6.7 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Northfield, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.3 · 381% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #1119/1589
  • PHOTO District Wide
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: District Wide (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northfield High School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northfield High School averages 5.3 TCR (381% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Northfield High School TCR series: 2023=6.7 · 2024=4 · BLS 1.4

Where Northfield High School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1119 safest of 1589 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Minnesota.

Northfield High School (155 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Northfield High School
Northfield High School (155 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Northfield High School has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 4.0 1.3 3 0 0
2023 6.7 5.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Northfield

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 66 employers in Northfield, 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 District Wide 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Center Senior Highschool 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR RCW K-12 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mabel Canton School 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE HiMEC Mechanical 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8th Ave Food & Provisions 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE MONTEVIDEO 155 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmington MN 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Olaf College 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carleton College 1,598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Mill Northfield MN 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northfield Hospital + Clinics- Campus 620 FTE
NAT-TCR Nyelm - Elmira Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Miliv - Livonia Hub 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Albir - Birmingham Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR D&D Global, Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Griffin Grading & Concrete, LLC 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Life Care Center of Citrus County 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Townville SC Truss 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bruker Biospin Corporation 155 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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