Telecommunications carriers, wired · Minnesota

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop

Underwood, MN · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop runs at 424% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Telecommunications carriers, wired workplace, earning a grade F.

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop: 3.0 TCR = 424% of Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS 0.7 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop safety composite

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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

−4.5

2019→2021

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop injury rate improved

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop's TCR fell 4.5 from 4.5 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.5 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 517110 · Underwood, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 424% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/12
  • PHOTO Segra Home Quarters
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Segra Home Quarters (0.0 TCR gap)

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Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop averages 3.0 TCR (424% of the Telecommunications carriers, wired BLS benchmark).

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

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop TCR series: 2019=4.5 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=0 · BLS 0.7

Where Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop falls in its industry

537 Telecommunications carriers, w establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 12 Telecommunications carriers, w employers in Minnesota.

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop (20 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop
Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop (20 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 276 employees and a TCR of 1.3

Park Region Mutual Telephone Coop has fewer employees than the Telecommunications carriers, wired median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.3. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.4 0.0 0 1 0
2019 4.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

517110 · MN · Underwood

537 Telecommunications carriers, wired employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 3 employers in Underwood, 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 Segra Home Quarters 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orange County 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Communications Broadband 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wave Division Holdings LLC Bothell 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE C74 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE MNSGA-SEL-SELECT GENETICS ADMIN' 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bees Minnesota 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glyndon 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR ISD #550 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otter Tail Telcom 28 FTE
NAT-TCR H&S Distribution Annapolis Junction 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Engraving, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Social Services 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Galt Industrial Millwork 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE New-Com Metal Products 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Krieg Construction, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sherrington (#143) 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fabrication Division 20 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.