Recreation area, open space, construction · Minnesota

Parks Department

Owatonna, MN · ~18 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Parks Department runs at 325% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Recreation area, open space, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Parks Department: 9.1 TCR = 325% of Recreation area, open space, construction BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Parks Department safety composite

Parks Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2017→2024

Parks Department injury rate improved

Parks Department's TCR fell 1.3 from 13.7 in 2017 to 12.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 20.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=13.7 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=20.9 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=13.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=12.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 325% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Hayward Construction…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hayward Construction Group, LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Parks Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Parks Department averages 9.1 TCR (325% of the Recreation area, open space, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Parks Department TCR series: 2017=13.7 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=0 · 2020=20.9 · 2021=7 · 2022=13 · 2023=0 · 2024=12.3 · BLS 2.8

Where Parks Department falls in its industry

932 Recreation area, open space, c establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 14 Recreation area, open space, c employers in Minnesota.

Parks Department (18 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Parks Department
Parks Department (18 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Parks Department has fewer employees than the Recreation area, open space, constructio median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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 12.3 12.3 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 13.0 13.0 2 0 0
2021 7.0 0.0 1 0 0
2020 20.9 10.5 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2017 13.7 13.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · MN · Owatonna

932 Recreation area, open space, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Hayward Construction Group, LLC 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Airway Heights 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR EDGE Contracting, Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Angwin 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE WPI-Fieldstaff 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN Magnum 003-0138-MA 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mesabi Metallics 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vigen Construction- Erskine 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Pittsburgh 025 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hindley 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Toyota Motor Mfg Indiana, Inc 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartford Correctional Center 9.1 TCR

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.

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

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