Middle schools · Minnesota

Southwest Middle School

Albert Lea, MN · ~76 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southwest Middle School runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Middle schools workplace, earning a grade C.

Southwest Middle School: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Middle schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southwest Middle School safety composite

Southwest Middle School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Southwest Middle School held a steady TCR band

Southwest Middle School's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 0.0 TCR.

2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Albert Lea, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/1589
  • PHOTO WINDSOR PUBLIC SCHOO…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: WINDSOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS/LPW (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southwest Middle School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southwest Middle School averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Middle schools BLS benchmark).

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

Southwest Middle School TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Southwest Middle School falls in its industry

3,374 Middle schools establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #0 safest of 1589 Middle schools employers in Minnesota.

Southwest Middle School (76 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 Southwest Middle School
Southwest Middle School (76 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Southwest Middle School has more employees than the Middle schools median and a lower 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Albert Lea

3,374 Middle schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 93 employers in Albert Lea, 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 WINDSOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS/LPW 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WINDSOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS/POQUONOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCM BOCES 0.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plainfield Elementary School 0.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Twin City Framers 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fireside Hearth n Home Roseville 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schoenfelder Renovations 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ridley Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mayo Clinic Health System-Albert Lea 825 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lou-Rich Front Street 277 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1020 262 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1020 261 FTE
NAT-TCR Gaapr - Ups Supply Chain Solutions 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Other Location 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Putzel Electrical Contractors, Inc. 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TXC101551 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Orgra - Grants Pass 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cauki - Ukiah Center 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buffalo Pumps 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gas Turbine Efficiency LLC 76 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.