Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway · Minnesota

Wright County- Highway Department

Name: Wright County- Highway Department Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Buffalo, MN · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 0.9
Avg TCR: 2.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Wright County- Highway Department runs at 33% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway workplace, earning a grade A.

Wright County- Highway Department: 0.9 TCR = 33% of Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wright County- Highway Department safety composite

Wright County- Highway Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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).

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 0.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers
DART rate: D 1.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

Wright County- Highway Department held a steady TCR band

Wright County- Highway Department's TCR held near 0.0 from 1.8 in 2019 to 1.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=1.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Buffalo, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 33% of ind

DART 1.9 DART
RANK #5/107
PHOTO Carter Construction,…
BOOK 4y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carter Construction, LLC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Wright County- Highway Department averages 0.9 TCR (33% of the Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway BLS benchmark).

Wright County- Highway Department TCR series: 2019=1.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=1.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Wright County- Highway Department falls in its industry

4,078 Surfacing, highway, road, stre establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 107 Surfacing, highway, road, stre employers in Minnesota.

Wright County- Highway Department (56 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Wright County- Highway Department has fewer employees than the Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge median and a lower 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
2022	1.9	1.9	0	1
2021	0.0	0.0	0	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0	0
2019	1.8	0.0	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · MN · Buffalo

4,078 Surfacing, highway, road, street, bridge or airport runway employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 74 employers in Buffalo, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Carter Construction, LLC.	MONT BELVIEU, TX	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Stacy and Witbeck, Inc. - Ogden BRT	OGDEN, UT	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Shields Asphalt Paving	VALENCIA, PA	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	1804 Bois D'Arc	HONEY GROVE, TX	0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	LDC.FAR	SLEEPY EYE	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Public Utilities	NEW ULM	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Shakopee Public Utilities	SHAKOPEE	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CenterPoint Energy - Mankato	MANKATO	56 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital)	Buffalo	532 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Health One Buffalo	Buffalo	500 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 1577	Buffalo	404 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1577	Buffalo	320 FTE
NAT-TCR	Sodexo at Warren Wilson Coll-Dining Hall	Swannanoa, NC	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sodexo at Auburn Univ. at Montgomery Fac	Montgomery, AL	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sodexo at Vanguard Group-Morgan	Malvern, PA	0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sodexo at United Club Iah App Care	Houston, TX	0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Houston Tristar 3I	Webster, TX	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Region 11 RBCO - WY-WST-CA 90-11-01-90	Clearwater, FL	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Rbco 10 Wa-Nw 90-10-01-90	Clearwater, FL	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Titan Armored Inc.	Bardstown, KY	56 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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