Police Protection · Minnesota

Sheriff

Buffalo, MN · ~281 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheriff runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Police Protection workplace, earning a grade D.

Sheriff: 4.0 TCR = 124% of Police Protection BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff safety composite

Sheriff scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sheriff: 3.1 → 4.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.08× in 2024

Sheriff's TCR rose 1.8 from 3.1 in 2023 to 4.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Buffalo, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 124% of ind

  • DART 4.3 DART
  • RANK #8/71
  • PHOTO Office of Field Oper…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~281 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Office of Field Operations - Los Angeles (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheriff in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff averages 4.0 TCR (124% of the Police Protection BLS benchmark).

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

Sheriff TCR series: 2023=3.1 · 2024=4.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff falls in its industry

716 Police Protection establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 71 Police Protection employers in Minnesota.

Sheriff (281 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheriff
Sheriff (281 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Sheriff has more employees than the Police Protection 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
2024 4.9 4.3 8 0 0
2023 3.1 2.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MN · Buffalo

716 Police Protection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 74 employers in Buffalo, 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 Office of Field Operations - Los Angeles 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - Atlanta 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR EGV POLICE DEPT. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Tinley Park - Police 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE 3495-11D9987 281 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4257 281 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite Falls Municipal Hospital and Manor 281 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anderson Dahlen Inc 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health One Buffalo 500 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1577 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1577 320 FTE
NAT-TCR Jane Hatchery 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carlinville Area Hospital 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Catfish Company 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Industry Services Company, Inc. 281 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas Operations LLC 281 FTE
NAT-SIZE Missouri Valley Family YMCA 281 FTE
NAT-SIZE GreyStone Power Hiram Headquarters 281 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.

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

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