Academies, college or university · Minnesota

Riverland Community College, Austin MN

Name: Riverland Community College, Austin MN Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Austin, MN · ~204 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 1.3
Avg TCR: 1.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Riverland Community College, Austin MN runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Academies, college or university workplace, earning a grade C.

Riverland Community College, Austin MN: 1.3 TCR = 92% of Academies, college or university BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Riverland Community College, Austin MN safety composite

Riverland Community College, Austin MN scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

Riverland Community College, Austin MN held a steady TCR band

Riverland Community College, Austin MN's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.2 in 2023 to 1.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=1.2 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Austin, MN AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.3 · 92% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #16/47
PHOTO Wingate University
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~204 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wingate University (0.0 TCR gap)

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UW Seattle

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Riverland Comm

1.3

What this shows Riverland Community College, Austin MN averages 1.3 TCR (92% of the Academies, college or university BLS benchmark).

Riverland Community College, Austin MN TCR series: 2023=1.2 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Riverland Community College, Austin MN falls in its industry

347 Academies, college or universi establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 47 Academies, college or universi employers in Minnesota.

Riverland Community College, Austin MN (204 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

Riverland Community College, Austin MN has fewer employees than the Academies, college or university median and a lower 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	1.4	0.0	2	0	0
2023	1.2	0.6	2	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · MN · Austin

347 Academies, college or university employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 75 employers in Austin, 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	Wingate University	WINGATE, NC	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hastings College - Hastings, NE	HASTINGS, NE	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	UW Seattle	SEATTLE, WA	1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Riverland Community College	AUSTIN, MN	1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Mankato MN (Plant)	NORTH MANKATO	204 FTE
STATE-SIZE	UMC, Inc.	MONTICELLO	204 FTE
STATE-SIZE	E A Sween Company-Direct Store Delivery	EDEN PRAIRIE	204 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BUFFALO MN - 3203	BUFFALO	204 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hormel Foods - Austin	Austin	1,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hormel Foods - Austin Plant	Austin	1,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Hormel Foods Corporation	Austin	1,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Quality Pork Processors Inc.	Austin	1,208 FTE
NAT-TCR	Thermaltech, Inc.	Washington, MO	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	TXMSN	Mission, TX	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Jag Manufacturing Inc	Johnstown, NY	1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Fujifilm North America Corporation- Greenwood, SC	Greenwood, SC	1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Aspen Surgical PR Corporation	Las Piedras, PR	204 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kenyon Plastering of Southern CA, Inc.--San Marcos Div	San Marcos, CA	204 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rich Products Fountain Inn	Fountain Inn, SC	204 FTE
NAT-SIZE	24x7 (Columbia)	Cayce, SC	204 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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