Elementary and secondary schools · Minnesota

Spring Creek Elementary

Northfield, MN · ~83 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spring Creek Elementary runs at 683% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Spring Creek Elementary: 9.6 TCR = 683% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spring Creek Elementary safety composite

Spring Creek Elementary scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

TCR Δ

−10.0

2023→2024

Spring Creek Elementary injury rate improved

Spring Creek Elementary's TCR fell 10.0 from 14.5 in 2023 to 4.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=14.5 · 2024=4.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Northfield, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 683% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1440/1589
  • PHOTO Chamberlain Elementa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~83 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chamberlain Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spring Creek Elementary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spring Creek Elementary averages 9.6 TCR (683% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Spring Creek Elementary TCR series: 2023=14.5 · 2024=4.6 · BLS 1.4

Where Spring Creek Elementary falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 12% 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 #1440 safest of 1589 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Minnesota.

Spring Creek Elementary (83 employees, TCR 9.6) 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 Spring Creek Elementary
Spring Creek Elementary (83 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Spring Creek Elementary has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a higher 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 4.6 0.0 2 0 0
2023 14.5 12.1 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Northfield

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 66 employers in Northfield, 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 Chamberlain Elementary School 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR School Inspectors 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hayward Unified School District - Transportation Department 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR UCP - TLA 9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE King Gen Plant-PD 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE MVEC 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hy-Tec Construction of Brainerd, Inc. 83 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&D Construction, Inc. 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Olaf College 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carleton College 1,598 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campbell Mill Northfield MN 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northfield Hospital + Clinics- Campus 620 FTE
NAT-TCR Mtgle - Glendive 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Okpon - Ponca City 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR San Joaquin General Hospital 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Court 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE M K Harvesting Inc 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Plastic Corporation 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arc Industries 83 FTE
NAT-SIZE Omega Engineering 83 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.