Indepedent School District · Minnesota

West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary

West St Paul, MN · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Indepedent School District workplace, earning a grade D.

West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary: 2.2 TCR = 158% of Indepedent School District BLS 1.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary safety composite

West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary: 0.0 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.36× in 2022

West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary's TCR rose 5.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 2.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 2.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #448/1589
  • PHOTO Lockport Township Hi…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lockport Township High School District 205 Central Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary 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-Somerset Heights Elementary averages 2.2 TCR (158% of the Indepedent 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-Somerset Heights Elementary TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=5.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2022=5.2 · BLS 1.4

Where West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary falls in its industry

3,374 Indepedent School District establishments

Safer than 74% 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 #448 safest of 1589 Indepedent School District employers in Minnesota.

West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary (58 employees, TCR 2.2) 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-Somerset Heights Elementary
West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary (58 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

West St Paul ISD #197-Somerset Heights Elementary has fewer employees than the Indepedent 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 5.2 5.2 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · West St Paul

3,374 Indepedent 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 Lockport Township High School District 205 Central Campus 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BHS 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snail Lake Education Center 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maloney Magnet School 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vireo Health of MN - Otsego 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz Farms SE Misc MN 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2101-Redwood Falls, MN (Monsanto Co.) 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Home Office 58 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 Texas 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR East Tennessee Mechanical Contractors 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 4 Wheel Parts - Orlando 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Harold Zeigler Kalamazoo 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frontier Truck Parts, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG514 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG699 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Briarwood Farms 58 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.