Employer · North Dakota

Watford City

Watford City, ND · ~122 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
1.9
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Watford City runs at 74% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Watford City: 1.4 TCR = 74% of industry BLS 1.9 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watford City safety composite

Watford City scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

Watford City held a steady TCR band

Watford City's TCR held near 0.2 from 0.2 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.2 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=5.8 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 211111 · Watford City, ND AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.4 · 74% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #13/16
  • PHOTO Pioneer Well Service…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~122 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pioneer Well Services, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Watford City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watford City averages 1.4 TCR (74% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Watford City TCR series: 2016=0.2 · 2018=0.6 · 2019=0 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=5.8 · 2023=1.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.9

Where Watford City falls in its industry

225 industry establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Dakota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 16 industry employers in North Dakota.

Watford City (122 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 05001,0001,500 01234 Average employees Total Case Rate Watford City
Watford City (122 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 150 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Watford City has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.1 0.0 1 0 1
2021 5.8 1.9 2 1 0
2020 2.1 1.1 1 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.6 0.0 1 0 0
2016 0.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

211111 · ND · Watford City

225 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,696 rated employers in North Dakota with headcount on file · 17 employers in Watford City, 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 Pioneer Well Services, LLC 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WPX Energy Inc. - Williston 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR EP Energy - Eagle Ford (Dilley) 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Uinta 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neset Consulting Service Inc 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE NDMIN - MINOT 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elm Crest Manor 122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgewood Village 122 FTE
CITY-NEAR McKenzie County Healthcare Systems Inc. 289 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arnett & Burgess Pipeliners (Rockies) LLC 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3042 Cash Wise Watford City 105 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watford City FM&L 94 FTE
NAT-TCR Run Energy, LP 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Laredo 10287 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Cooling 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Phillips Brothers Construction, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Txvic - Victoria 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE FV Clinics - Woodwinds 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tncol - Columbia 122 FTE
NAT-SIZE Richland 122 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.