Academies, elementary or secondary · Minnesota

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center

Brooklyn Center, MN · ~100 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center runs at 1195% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Academies, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center: 16.7 TCR = 1195% of Academies, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center safety composite

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−2.4

2023→2024

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center injury rate improved

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center's TCR fell 2.4 from 17.9 in 2023 to 15.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 17.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=17.9 · 2024=15.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Brooklyn Center, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 16.7 · 1195% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #1560/1589
  • PHOTO Adult Education Sout…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~100 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Adult Education South Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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Willow Lane Early Childhood Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Willow Lane Early Childhood Center averages 16.7 TCR (1195% of the Academies, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center TCR series: 2023=17.9 · 2024=15.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Willow Lane Early Childhood Center falls in its industry

3,374 Academies, elementary or secon establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #1560 safest of 1589 Academies, elementary or secon employers in Minnesota.

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center (100 employees, TCR 16.7) 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 Willow Lane Early Childhood Center
Willow Lane Early Childhood Center (100 employees, TCR 16.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Willow Lane Early Childhood Center has more employees than the Academies, elementary or secondary median and a higher 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
2024 15.5 1.9 8 0 0
2023 17.9 9.0 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MN · Brooklyn Center

3,374 Academies, elementary or secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 85 employers in Brooklyn Center, 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 Adult Education South Campus 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR John J. Allison, Jr. Polaris Center 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ann Bremer Education Center 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 544 Paramount Drive, Raynham, MA 02767 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WARNING LITES OF MN 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abhe & Svoboda, Inc. 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works Department 100 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rochester Plumbing & Heating 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtronic MECC 1,252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtronic MECC North 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brooklyn Center Ambulance 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR Topgolf Brooklyn Center 379 FTE
NAT-TCR American Shizuki Corporation 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR sj logistics llc 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Roads 16.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Filter Corporation 16.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Insteel Wire Products TXW 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Take It For Granite 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Microbrush 100 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paragon Steel 100 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.