General services departments, government · Minnesota

Yellow Medicine County

Granite Falls, MN · ~106 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Yellow Medicine County runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade D.

Yellow Medicine County: 5.5 TCR = 171% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Yellow Medicine County safety composite

Yellow Medicine County scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−7.5

2017→2023

Yellow Medicine County injury rate improved

Yellow Medicine County's TCR fell 7.5 from 11.9 in 2017 to 4.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.9 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=0.9 · 2023=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Granite Falls, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 171% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #149/275
  • PHOTO City of Terre Haute
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~106 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Terre Haute (0.0 TCR gap)

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Yellow Medicine County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Yellow Medicine County averages 5.5 TCR (171% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

Yellow Medicine County TCR series: 2017=11.9 · 2018=8.7 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=0.9 · 2021=0.9 · 2023=4.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Yellow Medicine County falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #149 safest of 275 General services departments, employers in Minnesota.

Yellow Medicine County (106 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Yellow Medicine County
Yellow Medicine County (106 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Yellow Medicine County has more employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2023 4.4 0.0 5 0 0
2021 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 6.1 0.0 7 0 0
2018 8.7 0.9 10 0 0
2017 11.9 1.0 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Granite Falls

1,496 General services departments, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 14 employers in Granite Falls, 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 City of Terre Haute 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Oak Brook - Administration 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR County of Newaygo 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR County of Fresno 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Modern Heating & Air Conditioning, LLC 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Broadway Bakery - 5508 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE Granite-Tops 106 FTE
STATE-SIZE R&M Manufacturing 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Granite Falls Municipal Hospital and Manor 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR YELLOW MEDICINE EAST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT 2190 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Avera Granite Falls Health Center 141 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Granite Falls 84 FTE
NAT-TCR Millwork Shop 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pitt Ohio - Toledo 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Casa Dorinda 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Stellar Industries Kanawha Plant 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pantropic Power Inc 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sidney #215 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Essex Junction #192 106 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Specialists, LLC - Dickinson Branch 106 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: 2023, 2021, 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.