K-12 Education · Minnesota

Tower-Soudan School

Tower, MN · ~29 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tower-Soudan School runs at 409% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical K-12 Education workplace, earning a grade F.

Tower-Soudan School: 5.7 TCR = 409% of K-12 Education BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tower-Soudan School safety composite

Tower-Soudan School scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 29%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Tower-Soudan School: 0.0 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 22.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Tower-Soudan School's TCR rose 5.9 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 22.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.7 · 409% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1162/1589
  • PHOTO KMS Secondary
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KMS Secondary (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tower-Soudan School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tower-Soudan School averages 5.7 TCR (409% of the K-12 Education BLS benchmark).

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

Tower-Soudan School TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=22.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.2 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Tower-Soudan School falls in its industry

3,374 K-12 Education establishments

Safer than 29% 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 #1162 safest of 1589 K-12 Education employers in Minnesota.

Tower-Soudan School (29 employees, TCR 5.7) 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 Tower-Soudan School
Tower-Soudan School (29 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Tower-Soudan School has fewer employees than the K-12 Education 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 5.9 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 22.3 7.4 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Tower

3,374 K-12 Education employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 4 employers in Tower, 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 KMS Secondary 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CUSD#1 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carter Middle School 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR WESTERVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL - WCS 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Northern Plains Dairy LLP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE The tru Shrimp Company 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2530-Redwood Falls, MN-FND (Monsanto Co.) 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kasota Stone Fabricators 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fortune Bay Resort Casino 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR R29GY - Tower Office 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Greenwood Township Fire Department 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Baptist Health System Jacksonville Baptist Beaches 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Boulevard Brewing Company 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Loveland Co Sales Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cap Group LLC 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Courtyard at Bellevue 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dealership - Corcoran 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE DBA Grace Willowbrook 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0583 29 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.