State profile · OSHA ITA
Minnesota workplace safety
How 15,828 OSHA-reporting employers across Minnesota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 15,828
- Employers
- 5.7
- Avg TCR
- 259,594
- Injuries
- 141
- Fatalities
The state picture
Minnesota's reporting employers average 5.7 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.1 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.7
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 15,828
- employers reporting
- 259,594
- recordable injuries
- 141
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
32% of Minnesota's reporting establishments earn an F and 12% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where Minnesota ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRMinnesota's average TCR of 5.7 is lower than 26% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Minnesota is #40 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #9 of 54, a 31-place swing. A state can run a moderate everyday injury rate while its rarer, most severe incidents cluster differently; the two metrics measure different things and shouldn't be read as interchangeable.
How Minnesota Workplaces Compare
Minnesota hosts 15,828 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this Minnesota cohort, workers have logged 259,594 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 141 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in Minnesota, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in Minnesota, by injury rate
Page 105 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Bemidji state park | Bemidji | Recreational programs admini | D | 5.8 |
| Shorewood Service Center-RB | Shorewood | Electric Power Distribution | F | 5.8 |
| Woodland Industries | Caledonia | Job training, vocational reh | D | 5.8 |
| Elrosa Office/Fert/NH3/Whse | Elrosa | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | F | 5.8 |
| Schmitty & Sons | Lakeville | Bus operation, school and em | D | 5.8 |
| Enterprise CP, LLC | Long Prairie | Dry pasta packaged with othe | D | 5.8 |
| Lunds - Richfield | Richfield | Supermarkets | D | 5.8 |
| High Bridge Combined Cycle-SK | St Paul | Fossil Fuel Electric Generat | F | 5.8 |
| 1630 Cub Foods-Fridley (Sv 031424) | Fridley | SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE | D | 5.8 |
| Sanborn Mfg., division of MAT Industries LLC | Springfield | Air compressors manufacturin | D | 5.8 |
| Redwood Falls, MN-FND | Redwood Falls | Support Activities for Crop | D | 5.8 |
| PORT of Crow Wing County | Brainerd | IDD Group Home | D | 5.8 |
| Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers C565 | Roseville | Restaurants, fast food | D | 5.8 |
| Albertville Truss Division | Albertville | Roof trusses, wood, manufact | D | 5.8 |
| Laketown Elementary School | Waconia | Academies, elementary or sec | F | 5.8 |
| Hanco Corporation | Eagan | Tire and tube repair materia | F | 5.8 |
| 1970-03541 | Roseville | Limited-Service Restaurants | D | 5.8 |
| City of Robbinsdale | Robbinsdale | Executive offices, federal, | D | 5.8 |
| CommonBond: Skyline Tower | St. Paul | Subdividing real estate | F | 5.8 |
| Shopko Hometown #744 (Roseau, MN) | Roseau | Department Stores | D | 5.8 |
| 1643 Cub Foods-Champlin (Sv 031554) | Champlin | SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE | D | 5.8 |
| City of Burnsville - Ice Center | Burnsville | Ice skating rinks | D | 5.8 |
| Zayic Concrete Inc | Detroit Lakes | Concrete pouring | F | 5.8 |
| 8027512 Nvent | Anoka | Staffing | F | 5.8 |
| Elevate Property Management | Wayzata | Property managing, residenti | F | 5.8 |
| Sun Foods, Inc. | Brooklyn Center | Grocery stores | D | 5.8 |
| Brooklyn Park Mn - 3333 | Brooklyn Park | Home Centers | D | 5.8 |
| PHS Nursing | Roseville | Home Health Care Services | C | 5.8 |
| 10210s Drugstore | Sartell | Pharmacies and drug stores | D | 5.8 |
| Rosenbauer Minnesota | Wyoming | Motor Vehicle Body Manufactu | D | 5.8 |
| Frattallones Bloomington | Bloomington | Hardware stores | D | 5.8 |
| Innovative Basement Authority Rush City | Rush City | Footing and foundation concr | F | 5.8 |
| Maple Grove Senior High School | Maple Grove | Academies, elementary or sec | F | 5.8 |
| Supportive Living Solutions - Whittier Place | Minneapolis | Substance abuse facilities, | D | 5.8 |
| New Horizon Academy #57 | Minneapolis | Child day care centers | D | 5.8 |
| Delano ISD #879-Community Education Center | Delano | Independent School District | F | 5.8 |
| 266356-Log-Minneapolis Mn P&Dc | Minneapolis | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.8 |
| North Central International, North Cetral Intl. Mankato | North Mankato | Truck repair shops, general | F | 5.8 |
| Laporte Public School | Laporte | K-12 Education | F | 5.8 |
| 1694 91st Ave NE | Blaine | Plumbing and Heating Equipme | F | 5.8 |
| Sholom Community Alliance Home Health Care | Saint Louis Park | Home health care agencies | C | 5.8 |
| 6340-VIKING-MN004 | Duluth | Electrical Apparatus and Equ | F | 5.8 |
| AM | Saint Joseph | Centrifugal pumps manufactur | D | 5.8 |
| 354 ABC Supply Co., Inc | Savage | Wholesale Building Materials | F | 5.8 |
| Augustana Mt Olivet Hospice | Minneapolis | Hospices, inpatient care | C | 5.8 |
| CLT Twin Lakes | Roseville | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 5.8 |
| 2840 Monticello | Monticello | Home Centers | D | 5.8 |
| Osseo Area Learning Center | Brooklyn Park | Academies, elementary or sec | F | 5.8 |
| Peters Body Shop | St Cloud | - | F | 5.8 |
| Mayo Clinic Health System-Mankato | Mankato | General medical and surgical | B | 5.8 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Minnesota's safety record means for you
Minnesota averages a TCR of 5.7 - about 2.1× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.