Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge · Minnesota

Wadena County Highway Department

Wadena, MN · ~54 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wadena County Highway Department runs at 288% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge workplace, earning a grade F.

Wadena County Highway Department: 8.1 TCR = 288% of Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wadena County Highway Department safety composite

Wadena County Highway Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Wadena County Highway Department: 0.0 → 12.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2024

Wadena County Highway Department's TCR rose 12.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 12.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Wadena, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 288% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #90/107
  • PHOTO Springfield Striping…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Springfield Striping & Sealing (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wadena County Highway Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wadena County Highway Department averages 8.1 TCR (288% of the Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge BLS benchmark).

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

Wadena County Highway Department TCR series: 2019=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=14.8 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=12.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Wadena County Highway Department falls in its industry

4,078 Construction management, highw establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #90 safest of 107 Construction management, highw employers in Minnesota.

Wadena County Highway Department (54 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 Wadena County Highway Department
Wadena County Highway Department (54 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Wadena County Highway Department has fewer employees than the Construction management, highway, road, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 12.5 12.5 2 0 0
2023 12.9 12.9 2 0 0
2022 14.8 9.9 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MN · Wadena

4,078 Construction management, highway, road, street and bridge employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 34 employers in Wadena, 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 Springfield Striping & Sealing 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bonness, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lyons Facility 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR D6 Springfield West Yard 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monticello Training Center 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 09 Eveleth 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elder-Jones Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haldeman Homme, Inc. - Minneapolis - Corporate 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 4246 208 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4246 196 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elementary 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homecrest Outdoor Living 100 FTE
NAT-TCR True Value Company RDC - KC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Valley Eggs 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sentry Steel, Inc. 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbor Management Services, LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Priority Select, LLC 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kankakee Valley Park District 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Partners Insulation South (BDI) 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Regency Redmond Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 54 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.