Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · Minnesota

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail

Wadena, MN · ~70 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail runs at 523% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail: 16.7 TCR = 523% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail safety composite

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

TCR Δ

−18.1

2019→2024

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail injury rate improved

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail's TCR fell 18.1 from 28.5 in 2019 to 10.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 28.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=28.5 · 2021=23.4 · 2022=13.9 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=10.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Wadena, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.7 · 523% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #57/71
  • PHOTO Camp Verde Marshal's…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Camp Verde Marshal's Office (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wadena County Sheriff & Jail in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wadena County Sheriff & Jail averages 16.7 TCR (523% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail TCR series: 2019=28.5 · 2021=23.4 · 2022=13.9 · 2023=7.4 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Wadena County Sheriff & Jail falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 71 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in Minnesota.

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail (70 employees, TCR 16.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Wadena County Sheriff & Jail
Wadena County Sheriff & Jail (70 employees, TCR 16.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Wadena County Sheriff & Jail has fewer employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 10.4 10.4 3 0 0
2023 7.4 0.0 1 1 0
2022 13.9 3.5 2 2 0
2021 23.4 10.0 6 1 0
2019 28.5 8.1 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MN · Wadena

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) 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 Camp Verde Marshal's Office 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Fremont Police Department 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Guilford Police Department 16.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harmony 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Cloud Service Center 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE H2I Group 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Valley Machine 70 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 Huntley Fire Protection District 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Taylor County Health and Rehabilitation 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Residence Inn El Paso 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Portage Memory Care 16.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royals Commercial of Maryland Alpha 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Surry-Yadkin Electric Membership Corporation 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walker Foods, Inc. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Octa INC 70 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.