City and town managers' offices · Minnesota

Ottertail Fire & Rescue

Name: Ottertail Fire & Rescue Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Ottertail, MN · ~23 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.1
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Ottertail Fire & Rescue runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade D.

Ottertail Fire & Rescue: 5.1 TCR = 160% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ottertail Fire & Rescue safety composite

Ottertail Fire & Rescue scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Ottertail Fire & Rescue held a steady TCR band

Ottertail Fire & Rescue's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 41.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=41.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Ottertail, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 160% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #68/139
PHOTO City of Belton
BOOK 8y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Belton (0.0 TCR gap)

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5.1
City of Belton

5.1
City Hall

5.1
Local Governme

5.1
Village of Sch

5.1

What this shows Ottertail Fire & Rescue averages 5.1 TCR (160% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

Ottertail Fire & Rescue TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=41 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Ottertail Fire & Rescue falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 139 City and town managers' office employers in Minnesota.

Ottertail Fire & Rescue (23 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Ottertail Fire & Rescue has fewer employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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	Injuries
2024	0.0	0
2023	0.0	0
2022	0.0	0
2021	0.0	0
2020	0.0	0
2019	41.0	1
2018	0.0	0
2017	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · MN · Ottertail

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 6 employers in Ottertail, 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 Belton	BELTON, SC	5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City Hall	WEST BRANCH, MI	5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Local Government	VENTURA, CA	5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Village of Schaumburg	SCHAUMBURG, IL	5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Brooten	BROOTEN	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	United Dairy, Alpha Foods, LLP	LITCHFIELD	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	MNHT-SEL-HIGHWAY 12'	KERKHOVEN	23 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fergus Falls CSC	FERGUS FALLS	23 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Carrs Tree Service - Ottertail	Ottertail	141 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Thumper Pond Resort	Ottertail	71 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hilltop Lumber Ottertail	Ottertail	45 FTE
CITY-NEAR	10 Sheriff's Operations Center	Ottertail	34 FTE
NAT-TCR	Cherry Valley Orchard, Inc.	The Dalles, OR	5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Marengo Rescue Squad District	Marengo, IL	5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Turelk, Inc.	Long Beach, CA	5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Maddox Farms (Burrel Location)	Riverdale, CA	5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Napa Burlington	Roxboro, NC	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Department of Public Works	Olney, IL	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Town Hall	Vernon, CT	23 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Public Works/Highway Department	Watertown, CT	23 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.