Independent School District · Minnesota

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass

West St Paul, MN · ~110 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass runs at 116% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Independent School District workplace, earning a grade C.

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass: 1.6 TCR = 116% of Independent School District BLS 1.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass safety composite

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2017→2022

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass injury rate improved

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass's TCR fell 1.5 from 2.8 in 2017 to 1.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.8 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=0.0 · 2022=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · West St Paul, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.6 · 116% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #276/1589
  • PHOTO Elementary School
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass averages 1.6 TCR (116% of the Independent School District BLS benchmark).

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

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=2.7 · 2019=1.3 · 2020=0 · 2022=1.3 · BLS 1.4

Where West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass falls in its industry

3,374 Independent School District establishments

Safer than 83% 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 #276 safest of 1589 Independent School District employers in Minnesota.

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass (110 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass
West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass (110 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

West St Paul ISD #197-Heritage Middle School / Frances Grass has more employees than the Independent School District median and a lower 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
2022 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.3 1.3 1 0 0
2018 2.7 1.4 2 0 0
2017 2.8 1.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · West St Paul

3,374 Independent School District employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 20 employers in West St Paul, 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 Elementary School 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 191 Burnsville DEC Diamond Head Educ Cnt 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Unit School District #5 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Office 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cargill Animal Nutrition Innovation Campus 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Minneapolis SE Storage 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shaw-Lundquist Associates Inc. 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE All Energy Solar - MN 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR West St Paul ISD #197 917 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2046 - West St Paul 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR West St Paul ISD #197-Two Rivers High School 235 FTE
CITY-NEAR West St Paul ISD #197-Henry Sibley High School 228 FTE
NAT-TCR GloryBee - Production Facility 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Fishel Company 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0300 Tyson Foods Inc.- Logansport 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR PSSI - 0304 Claxton Poultry Farms Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crane's Mill 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE FS Yard 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vincent Bach Division 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hunter Douglas Custom Shutter 110 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: 2022, 2020, 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.