TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.7 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Minnesota workplace safety
How 15,828 OSHA-reporting employers across Minnesota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 13,817 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 15,828
- Employers
- 5.7
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 259,594
- Injuries (all)
- 141
- Fatalities (all)
Minnesota vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
15,828 10th of 54 higher than 44 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Minnesota's 13,817 rated 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 · rated subset
- 13,817
- rated employers
- 15,828
- all reporting employers
- 259,594
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 15,828 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 12% B · 11% C · 25% D · 20% F · 32%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Minnesota is #40 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 13,817-employer subset), 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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 13,817 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 14 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gopher State Contractors, Inc. | Rice | Addition, alteration and ren | F | 15.8 |
| Century Construction | South St Paul | Finish carpentry | F | 15.8 |
| MSP | Eagan | General Freight Trucking | F | 15.8 |
| AV For You | Crystal | Audio visual equipment renta | F | 15.8 |
| Southview Sr. Living - Eden Prairie Senior Living | Eden Prairie | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.8 |
| 00002755 2755 Baxter | Baxter | Pet and Pet Supplies Stores | F | 15.8 |
| Regina Hospital (United Hastings Regina) | Hastings | - | F | 15.8 |
| City of Inver Grove Heights | Inver Grove Heights | City and town managers' offi | F | 15.8 |
| Health One Buffalo (Buffalo Hospital) | Buffalo | - | F | 15.8 |
| 20865 Brooklyn Park | Brooklyn Park | School bus services | F | 15.7 |
| Burnsville Mn | Burnsville | Soft Drink Manufacturing | F | 15.7 |
| 6458-ZWLM | Willmar | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 15.7 |
| Isd 2137 | Spring Valley | School districts, elementary | F | 15.7 |
| Edina Specialty Surgery Center | Edina | Emergency medical centers an | F | 15.7 |
| Willmar Middle School | Willmar | Academies, elementary or sec | F | 15.7 |
| Bear Paddle Swim School | Minneapolis | Swimming instruction | F | 15.7 |
| Metro Home Insulation | Elk River | Insulation contractors | F | 15.7 |
| Lakes Area Landscaping LLC | Pelican Rapids | Lawn maintenance services | F | 15.7 |
| Muncipal Services Building | Chaska | General services departments | F | 15.7 |
| J&B Group St Michael | St Michael | Meats and meat products (exc | F | 15.7 |
| 4795-AA-MSP-MINNEAPOLIS-MSP-TRML | St. Paul | Scheduled Air Transportation | F | 15.7 |
| Starbuck Elementary | Starbuck | K-12 Education | F | 15.7 |
| Lindsay Windows Minnesota | North Mankato | Flat glass (e.g., float, pla | F | 15.6 |
| Duluth | Carlton | General Freight Trucking, Lo | F | 15.6 |
| Evergreens of Moorhead | Moorhead | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.6 |
| Temperance Lake Ridge | Sherburn | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.6 |
| Trader Joe's 0716 St. Paul | St. Paul | Grocery Store | F | 15.6 |
| Neighbor Senior Services LLC, dba CareAparent | Woobury | Home health care agencies | F | 15.6 |
| Fire Department | Hutchinson | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 15.6 |
| Abrahamson Nurseries - Stillwater | Stillwater | Garden centers | F | 15.6 |
| Eventide on Eighth | Moorhead | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 15.6 |
| Central McGowan | St. Cloud | Abrasives merchant wholesale | F | 15.6 |
| Faribault Medical Center | Faribault | - | F | 15.6 |
| Fire | Elk River | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 15.6 |
| Lakefield Veterinary Group - 119 | Inver Grove Heights | Veterinary Services | F | 15.5 |
| SJF Material Handling Inc | Winsted | Warehousing and storage, gen | F | 15.5 |
| Frattallone's Ace Hardare-Plato | St. Paul | Hardware stores | F | 15.5 |
| Bridgewater Elementary | Northfield | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 15.5 |
| Welcome | Trimont | Agricultural chemicals merch | F | 15.5 |
| SPECTRUM | Hokah | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 15.5 |
| Tree Trust Headquarters St Paul | St Paul | Natural resource preservatio | F | 15.5 |
| True North Equipment Warren | Warren | Agricultural machinery and e | F | 15.5 |
| City of Princeton - Fire and Rescue Department | Princeton | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 15.5 |
| Minneapolis Refuse, Inc. | Minneapolis | Recyclable material collecti | F | 15.5 |
| Place | Minneapolis | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 15.5 |
| Star Ocean | St. Paul | Dried foods (e.g., fruits, m | F | 15.4 |
| 269610-Waseca Po | Waseca | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.4 |
| Hillcrest Health Care LLC | Mankato | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 15.4 |
| Hiawatha Homes | Rochester | Healthcare | F | 15.4 |
| Main Campus | Duluth | Mental health facilities, re | F | 15.4 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Minnesota: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.7 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (15,828 here).
Look up a Minnesota employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.