Employer · Minnesota

Public Works

Duluth, MN · ~289 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works runs at 275% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works: 8.8 TCR = 275% of industry BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works safety composite

Public Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Public Works: 6.5 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

Public Works's TCR rose 5.4 from 6.5 in 2017 to 11.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Duluth, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 275% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #199/275
  • PHOTO Sheriff Department
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 154 inj
  • SIZE ~289 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sheriff Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works averages 8.8 TCR (275% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works TCR series: 2017=6.5 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=4.3 · 2021=10.2 · 2022=9.3 · 2023=11.2 · 2024=11.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Works falls in its industry

1,496 industry establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #199 safest of 275 industry employers in Minnesota.

Public Works (289 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works
Public Works (289 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Public Works has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 11.9 8.3 24 6 0
2023 11.2 7.2 23 5 0
2022 9.3 5.7 17 6 0
2021 10.2 6.9 23 2 0
2020 4.3 3.1 11 0 0
2019 9.4 6.4 21 4 0
2018 7.6 4.9 17 3 0
2017 6.5 3.4 18 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Duluth

1,496 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 340 employers in Duluth, 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 Sheriff Department 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Algonquin 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Lemont Public Works Department 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 0005 - Bloomington 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE 9998 Coborn's Support Center 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stillwater Medical Clinic 289 FTE
STATE-SIZE Community Planning & Economic Development 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Mary's Medical Center 3,230 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital of Duluth 3,052 FTE
CITY-NEAR Building D-Miller Dwan Medical Center 1,880 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Minnesota Duluth 1,701 FTE
NAT-TCR Harris Tire Co. Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Demco Manufacturing - Spencer 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Towing, Inc. 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Factory 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oakland Office 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-Lakes Services, Inc. 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochelle Distribution Center 289 FTE
NAT-SIZE RLA Utilities LLC 289 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.

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

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