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 108 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | St Paul | Automobile rental | F | 5.7 |
| Revol Greens MN, LLC | Owatonna | Hydroponic crop farming | D | 5.7 |
| NCS Pearson - Owatonna | Owatonna | Offset printing (except book | D | 5.7 |
| Cub Foods Nicollet - 5515 | Minneapolis | Grocery Stores | D | 5.7 |
| New Horizon Academy #36 | Minneapolis | Child day care centers | D | 5.7 |
| Avantech | Baxter | Industrial molds (except ste | D | 5.7 |
| Jordan Public Schools, ISD #717 | Jordan | School districts, elementary | F | 5.7 |
| Jerrys Foods Edina - 5211 | Minneapolis | Grocery Stores | D | 5.7 |
| Avivo - 8 | Minneapolis | Outpatient mental health cen | D | 5.7 |
| Main Office | Fairmont | Addition, alteration and ren | D | 5.7 |
| Morris Packaging, LLC | Plymouth | Film, plastics, packaging, m | D | 5.7 |
| Wysan Precast | Hawley | Concrete product (e.g., stru | F | 5.7 |
| Faribault Live Haul | Faribault | Poultry catching services | D | 5.7 |
| 63233 Sunrise of Minnetonka | Minnetonka | Nursing Care Facilities | C | 5.7 |
| Denfeld Medical Clinic | Duluth | Healthcare | D | 5.7 |
| Enzymology Research Center Inc | Miltona | Pharmaceutical preparations | D | 5.7 |
| General Parts (Corporate) - MN | Bloomington | Service machinery and equipm | F | 5.7 |
| Bird & Cronin LLC | Eagan | Medical Device | D | 5.7 |
| Lake Minnetonka Shores | Spring Park | - | C | 5.7 |
| The Caulkers Company Office | Fridley | Caulking (i.e., waterproofin | F | 5.7 |
| 3212 St Paul Box Board Mill | St Paul | PAPERBOARD MILLS | D | 5.7 |
| Brookdale West Saint Paul (AL) | West Saint Paul | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.7 |
| Rihm Kenworth 106 Winona | Winona | Truck tractors, road, mercha | F | 5.7 |
| Metro Dentalcare-Burnsville Ridges | Burnsville | DDSs' (doctors of dental sur | D | 5.7 |
| 1459-833 | Minneapolis | Elementary and Secondary Sch | F | 5.7 |
| ME Global - Duluth | Duluth | Foundries (except die-castin | D | 5.7 |
| 3669_6994 | Madison | - | C | 5.7 |
| Triangle Warehouse, Inc | Minneapolis | General freight trucking, lo | D | 5.7 |
| Wm 5977 | Burnsville | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.7 |
| WACOSA | Waite Park | Habilitation job counseling | D | 5.7 |
| Core-Mark Minneapolis | Minneapolis | - | F | 5.7 |
| Benedictine Living Community Shakopee | Shakopee | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 5.7 |
| United Dairy, Union Dairy LLP | Sauk Center | Dairy cattle farming | D | 5.7 |
| Lifeworks Services, Inc Apple Valley | Apple Valley | Social service agencies, fam | D | 5.7 |
| Miller Lincoln Nissan Inc. | Saint Cloud | Automobile dealers, new only | D | 5.7 |
| Minneapolis (Mnbla) | Blaine | General Freight Trucking Loc | D | 5.7 |
| Slayton (Mnsla) | Slayton | Courier Services Except by A | C | 5.7 |
| Metro Transit Overhaul Base | St Paul | Mixed mode transit systems ( | D | 5.7 |
| Wells Concrete, Wells | Wells | Architectural wall panels, p | D | 5.7 |
| Diamond Path Elementary School | Apple Valley | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 5.7 |
| Wm 2198 | Bloomington | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.7 |
| Auto Value - Austin | Austin | Automotive parts, new, merch | F | 5.7 |
| 1616 Cub Foods-Eagan (Sv 030294) | Eagan | SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE | D | 5.7 |
| Lester Building Systems, LLC LP | Lester Prairie | Buildings, prefabricated, wo | D | 5.7 |
| Voss Plumbing & Heating of Paynesville Inc. | Paynesville | Mechanical contractors | F | 5.7 |
| North Loop Services, Inc. | Litchfield | Employee leasing services | F | 5.7 |
| Metropolitan Ford LLC | Eden Prairie | Automobile dealers, new only | D | 5.7 |
| Long Prairie | Long Prairie | Chicken egg production | D | 5.7 |
| 3004 Cash Wise Willmar | Willmar | Retail Grocery | D | 5.7 |
| Lunds & Byerlys, Uptown | Minneapolis | Food (i.e., groceries) store | D | 5.7 |
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.