Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Minnesota

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center

Name: Pennington County Law Enforcement Center Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Thief River Falls, MN · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.6
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade D.

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center: 5.6 TCR = 176% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center safety composite

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 5.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers
DART rate: A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.2

2017→2018

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center injury rate improved

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center's TCR fell 11.2 from 11.2 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.2 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Thief River Falls, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 176% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #19/71
PHOTO CITY OF FREMONT-POLI…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CITY OF FREMONT-POLICE DEPARTMENT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheriff and Ja

5.7
This site

5.6
CITY OF FREMON

5.6
City of Geneva

5.6
Office of Fiel

5.6

What this shows Pennington County Law Enforcement Center averages 5.6 TCR (176% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center TCR series: 2017=11.2 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Pennington County Law Enforcement Center falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 71 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Minnesota.

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center (44 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Pennington County Law Enforcement Center has fewer employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2018	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2017	11.2	2.8	4	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MN · Thief River Falls

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	CITY OF FREMONT-POLICE DEPARTMENT	FREMONT, CA	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Geneva - Police Dept.	GENEVA, IL	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Office of Field Operations - Seattle	SEATTLE, WA	5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sheriff and Jail (CON-0070)	NORFOLK, VA	5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	West River	MORRIS	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Monticello Training Ctr-LL	MONTICELLO	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Water Treatment Facility	BELLE PLAINE	44 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WasteWater Treatment Facility	BELLE PLAINE	44 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Textron Specialized Vehicles - Arctic Cat Thief River Falls	Thief River Falls	734 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MN,THIEF RIVER FALLS - Downtown Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals	Thief River Falls	386 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MN,Thief River Falls-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals	Thief River Falls	339 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 3761	Thief River Falls	228 FTE
NAT-TCR	Lakeshore	Dunkirk, NY	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	LifeScape Adult Services Western	Sioux Falls, SD	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	2000 - Environmental Denver CO (inc 2000,2001,2005,2008)	Denver, CO	5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Nassau (Nynas)	Uniondale, NY	5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	KCP&L - Warrensburg Service Center	Warrensburg, MO	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Blue Bell PA	Blue Bell, PA	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Aqua Services, Inc. - Cary	Cary, NC	44 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CMR Office	Gilbert, AZ	44 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: 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.