Colleges, community · Minnesota

Rochester Community and Technical College

Rochester, MN · ~344 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rochester Community and Technical College runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Colleges, community workplace, earning a grade D.

Rochester Community and Technical College: 2.4 TCR = 169% of Colleges, community BLS 1.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rochester Community and Technical College safety composite

Rochester Community and Technical College scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Rochester Community and Technical College: 1.3 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2023

Rochester Community and Technical College's TCR rose 2.9 from 1.3 in 2017 to 4.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Rochester, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.4 · 169% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #33/40
  • PHOTO Rend Lake College
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~344 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rend Lake College (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rochester Community and Technical College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rochester Community and Technical College averages 2.4 TCR (169% of the Colleges, community BLS benchmark).

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

Rochester Community and Technical College TCR series: 2017=1.3 · 2019=2.8 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 1.4

Where Rochester Community and Technical College falls in its industry

127 Colleges, community establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 40 Colleges, community employers in Minnesota.

Rochester Community and Technical College (344 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Rochester Community and Technical College
Rochester Community and Technical College (344 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Rochester Community and Technical College has fewer employees than the Colleges, community median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2023 4.2 1.4 9 0 0
2022 2.6 1.0 8 0 0
2021 0.9 0.0 3 0 0
2019 2.8 1.1 10 0 0
2017 1.3 0.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · MN · Rochester

127 Colleges, community employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 290 employers in Rochester, 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 Rend Lake College 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alexandria Technical and Community College 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rowan College at Burlington County 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Illinois Valley Community College (IVCC) 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Glacial Ridge Health System 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conservation Corps 344 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northland Concrete & Masonry 343 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trident Seafoods 343 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC 1,051 FTE
CITY-NEAR FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 823 FTE
NAT-TCR American Fuji Seal 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bi-Rite Office 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Fiesta # 05 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Foundry Cafe 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE John Brown University 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wolverine Worldwide - Distribution Center 48 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE L. F. Jennings, Inc. 344 FTE
NAT-SIZE Metra Electronics Corporation 344 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 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.