Road construction · North Dakota

Northern Improvement Fargo

Fargo, ND · ~151 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northern Improvement Fargo runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Road construction workplace, earning a grade C.

Northern Improvement Fargo: 3.0 TCR = 106% of Road construction BLS 2.8 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northern Improvement Fargo safety composite

Northern Improvement Fargo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 50%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Northern Improvement Fargo: 3.0 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Northern Improvement Fargo's TCR rose 0.8 from 3.0 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Fargo, ND ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/19
  • PHOTO A.O. Hardee and Son,…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~151 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: A.O. Hardee and Son, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northern Improvement Fargo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northern Improvement Fargo averages 3.0 TCR (106% of the Road construction BLS benchmark).

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

Northern Improvement Fargo TCR series: 2016=3 · 2017=3 · 2018=4.2 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Northern Improvement Fargo falls in its industry

4,078 Road construction establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 19 Road construction employers in North Dakota.

Northern Improvement Fargo (151 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Northern Improvement Fargo
Northern Improvement Fargo (151 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Northern Improvement Fargo has more employees than the Road construction 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 Fatalities
2024 3.8 0.0 3 0 0
2023 4.3 0.0 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 2.4 0.0 2 0 0
2020 2.7 0.0 2 0 0
2019 3.5 1.2 3 0 0
2018 4.2 0.4 11 0 0
2017 3.0 1.3 9 0 0
2016 3.0 0.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · ND · Fargo

4,078 Road construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 415 employers in Fargo, ND · 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 A.O. Hardee and Son, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR AL Blades Construction 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southern Road & Bridge, LLC 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alpha Milling 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sabin Metal West Corporation 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agricover 151 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill Top Home Of Comfort Inc NP 152 FTE
STATE-SIZE Touchmark at Harwood Groves LLC 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,963 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,722 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,FARGO - Fargo Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals 2,568 FTE
CITY-NEAR ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals 2,547 FTE
NAT-TCR Elvira Sandoval 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Operation Stand Down TN 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Louisville Seed 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR TX/NM - Stafford - 4367 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #5863 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bridon American Corporation 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville Nursing and Rehab Center 151 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCormick Distilling Co., Inc. 151 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.