Grading, highway, road, street and airport runway · Minnesota
Pennington County Highway Department
Thief River Falls, MN · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- D
- Poor Safety Record
- 4.7
- Avg TCR
- 2.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Pennington County Highway Department runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grading, highway, road, street and airport runway workplace, earning a grade D.
Pennington County Highway Department: 4.7 TCR = 167% of Grading, highway, road, street and airport runway BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)
Pennington County Highway Department safety composite
Pennington County Highway Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31%), 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).
54/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Total Case Rate (TCR)
- F 4.68 per 100 workers
Safer than 31% of industry peers
- DART rate
- B 0 per 100 workers
Safer than 81% of industry peers
- Fatalities
- D 0
Safer than 53% 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%).
Pennington County Highway Department held a steady TCR band
Pennington County Highway Department's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).
2017=0.0 · 2018=17.5 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0
OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard
Establishment book 237310 · Thief River Falls, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL
Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 167% of ind
- DART 0.0 DART
- RANK #66/107
- PHOTO Peek Pavement Markin…
- BOOK 5y book
- INJ 4 inj
- SIZE ~21 FTE
Nearest TCR peer: Peek Pavement Marking Locust Grove, GA (0.0 TCR gap)
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Pennington County Highway Department in the TCR neighbourhood
Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers
- This site
Pennington County Highway Department
4.7 TCR
- Peek Pavement
Peek Pavement Marking Locust Grove, GA
4.7 TCR
- Mohawk Northea
Mohawk Northeast
4.7 TCR
- Whitehurst-Dun
Whitehurst-Dunn
4.7 TCR
- Northern Mount
Northern Mountain Constructors Inc
4.7 TCR
What this shows Pennington County Highway Department averages 4.7 TCR (167% of the Grading, highway, road, street and airport runway BLS benchmark).
Pennington County Highway Department TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=17.5 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.8
Where Pennington County Highway Department falls in its industry
4,078 Grading, highway, road, street establishmentsSafer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.
Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #66 safest of 107 Grading, highway, road, street employers in Minnesota.
Pennington County Highway Department has fewer employees than the Grading, highway, road, street and airpo median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 5.9 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 17.5 | 5.8 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OSHA ITA peer cross-reference
Establishment peer ledger
237310 · MN · Thief River Falls
4,078 Grading, highway, road, street and airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 42 employers in Thief River Falls, 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 | Peek Pavement Marking Locust Grove, GA | 4.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Mohawk Northeast | 4.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Whitehurst-Dunn | 4.7 TCR |
| NAICS-TCR | Northern Mountain Constructors Inc | 4.7 TCR |
| STATE-SIZE | Winthrop Agronomy | 21 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | Donahues Greenhouse | 21 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | M7 | 21 FTE |
| STATE-SIZE | MNLOG-SEL-SEL MN LOGISTICS' | 21 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | Textron Specialized Vehicles - Arctic Cat Thief River Falls | 734 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | MN,THIEF RIVER FALLS - Downtown Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals | 386 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | MN,Thief River Falls-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals | 339 FTE |
| CITY-NEAR | WM 3761 | 228 FTE |
| NAT-TCR | Pulaski 014 | 4.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Reliable Cable TV Contractors, Inc. 12911 Halldale Avenue, Gardena, CA 90249 | 4.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Western Roofing Service | 4.7 TCR |
| NAT-TCR | Alpine HQ - 01 | 4.7 TCR |
| NAT-SIZE | Dos Palos Y Auction Yard | 21 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Mayflower Farms Inc | 21 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Thompson Trucking | 21 FTE |
| NAT-SIZE | Pennsylvania Coach - Elizabeth | 21 FTE |
Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.