Elementary and secondary schools · Minnesota

Pine River-Backus Schools

Pine River, MN · ~184 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pine River-Backus Schools runs at 336% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Pine River-Backus Schools: 4.7 TCR = 336% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pine River-Backus Schools safety composite

Pine River-Backus Schools scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Pine River-Backus Schools: 1.7 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.2× in 2024

Pine River-Backus Schools's TCR rose 4.8 from 1.7 in 2017 to 6.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Pine River, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.7 · 336% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #1024/1589
  • PHOTO Lake Bluff Middle Sc…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lake Bluff Middle School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pine River-Backus Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pine River-Backus Schools averages 4.7 TCR (336% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Pine River-Backus Schools TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Pine River-Backus Schools falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1024 safest of 1589 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Minnesota.

Pine River-Backus Schools (184 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Pine River-Backus Schools
Pine River-Backus Schools (184 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Pine River-Backus Schools has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 6.5 0.9 6 1 0
2023 8.1 2.7 9 0 0
2022 5.5 3.7 5 1 0
2021 5.1 1.0 5 0 0
2020 2.8 0.0 3 0 0
2019 4.3 0.9 5 0 0
2018 3.5 0.9 4 0 0
2017 1.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Pine River

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 9 employers in Pine River, 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 Lake Bluff Middle School 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Otsego Elementary School 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Braeburn School 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR W B GOODWIN ELEMENTARY 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE NPL Great Lakes LLC - Minnesota 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE McNamara Contracting, Inc 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rise Baking Company- New French Bakery 828 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vomela Specialty Company 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR Good Samaritan Society Pine River 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Halverson Wood Products Inc. 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trussworthy Components, Inc. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Pine River 30 FTE
NAT-TCR SSI Tacoma 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Joseph Jensen Filtration Plant 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mahuta Tool Corp 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Bluff Middle School 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prospect International Airport Services BWI WN 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE NPC South Inc. 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Largo, FL 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Lafayette Police Department 184 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.