Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training · Minnesota

Vermillion Community College

Ely, MN · ~55 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vermillion Community College runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training workplace, earning a grade D.

Vermillion Community College: 2.7 TCR = 192% of Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vermillion Community College safety composite

Vermillion Community College scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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%).

Vermillion Community College held a steady TCR band

Vermillion Community College's TCR held near 0.2 from 3.5 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.5 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Ely, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 2.7 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #35/40
  • PHOTO IECC - Workforce Edu…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IECC - Workforce Education (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vermillion Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vermillion Community College averages 2.7 TCR (192% of the Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training BLS benchmark).

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

Vermillion Community College TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=1.3 · 2019=3.3 · BLS 1.4

Where Vermillion Community College falls in its industry

127 Community colleges offering a establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 40 Community colleges offering a employers in Minnesota.

Vermillion Community College (55 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Vermillion Community College
Vermillion Community College (55 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Vermillion Community College has fewer employees than the Community colleges offering a wide varie median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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
2019 3.3 0.0 2 0 0
2018 1.3 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.5 1.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · MN · Ely

127 Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 18 employers in Ely, 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 IECC - Workforce Education 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemeketa Community College - Salem 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Cloud Technical & Community College 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemeketa Community College, Polk 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Langhorst Pork, Inc. 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gemko of Forest Lake dba WDI Company 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCO Echo 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Melrose, MN (Arvig) 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ely-Bloomenson Community Hospital 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Minnesota Department of Revenue - Ely 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grand Ely Lodge 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Camp Widjiwagan 70 FTE
NAT-TCR Division of Equipment 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Mount Vernon 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Market Basket #2 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tessenderlo Kerley Coffeyville, KS 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE BWE LLC, East Hartford, CT 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Willkomm Union Grove 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE POET Biorefining - Cloverdale LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Piedmont Propulsion Systems, LLC 55 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.