Distribution of electric power · Minnesota

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric

Owatonna, MN · ~31 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric runs at 704% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Distribution of electric power workplace, earning a grade F.

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric: 8.4 TCR = 704% of Distribution of electric power BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric safety composite

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric: 6.4 → 10.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2024

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric's TCR rose 4.1 from 6.4 in 2023 to 10.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221122 · Owatonna, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 704% of ind

  • DART 7.0 DART
  • RANK #77/85
  • PHOTO Utility Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Utility Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric averages 8.4 TCR (704% of the Distribution of electric power BLS benchmark).

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

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric TCR series: 2023=6.4 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 1.2

Where Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric falls in its industry

2,958 Distribution of electric power establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 85 Distribution of electric power employers in Minnesota.

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric (31 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric
Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric (31 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Steele-Waseca Cooperative Electric has fewer employees than the Distribution of electric power median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 10.5 7.0 2 1 0
2023 6.4 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221122 · MN · Owatonna

2,958 Distribution of electric power employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 122 employers in Owatonna, 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 Utility Department 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cartersville Operating 10 and 41 Massell Drive Cartersville 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Divison Gadsden Complex 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tuscaloosa Snow Mills Complex - APC 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE High Island Dairy 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Protein Sources, LLP 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Dog Gen Plant-UC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Plant 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Downtown & Remote 1,694 FTE
CITY-NEAR 27-321862189 1,465 FTE
CITY-NEAR Viracon 1,084 FTE
CITY-NEAR Truth Hardware 631 FTE
NAT-TCR Loveland Embassy Suites 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Georgetowne Place 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LAS01 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bremer Manufacturing Company, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CBSI Gaithersburg 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commonwealth Troy 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colonial Jacksonville 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBSI Camden 31 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.