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 157 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Home Store #312 | St. Paul | Homefurnishings stores | C | 3.8 |
| 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0443 | Minneapolis | - | D | 3.8 |
| Lunds & Byerlys, Prior Lake | Prior Lake | Grocery stores | C | 3.8 |
| 6299-MN002 | St. Paul | Offices of Physicians (excep | C | 3.8 |
| Eastview Elementary | Monticello | K-12 Education | F | 3.8 |
| ValleyInd Main | Paynesville | Sprayers, farm-type, merchan | D | 3.8 |
| Augustana Open Circle | Hopkins | Homes for the aged with nurs | B | 3.8 |
| Plymouth ATS - Cardiac Surgery | Plymouth | Instruments, mechanical micr | C | 3.8 |
| Joseph Companies (IQHC) 577 State | Owatonna | Home health agencies | B | 3.8 |
| 1459-0385 | Minneapolis | Elementary and Secondary Sch | F | 3.8 |
| St. Paul MN Thrift Store 7 | St. Paul | Used merchandise stores | C | 3.8 |
| R29IF - MN Interagency Fire Center | Grand Rapids | Fire prevention offices, gov | C | 3.8 |
| Berry Global Third Ave | Mankato | Plastics and synthetic resin | C | 3.8 |
| 10490 Maple Grove | Maple Grove | - | C | 3.8 |
| Cameron's Coffee and Distribution Company | Shakopee | Coffee roasting | C | 3.8 |
| Seward | Minneapolis | Academies, elementary or sec | F | 3.8 |
| Seneca Foods Corporation | Glencoe | Vegetable canning | C | 3.8 |
| Outcomes Inc | White Bear Lake | IDD Group Home | C | 3.8 |
| Log Minneapolis_1558144 | Minneapolis | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.8 |
| Bayer Built Woodworks Inc. | Belgrade | Doors and door frames mercha | D | 3.8 |
| Store 68 | Coon Rapids | Used Merchandise | C | 3.8 |
| 2006 Coborn's Little Falls | Little Falls | Retail Grocery | C | 3.8 |
| La Clinica | Saint Paul | offices and clinics of docto | C | 3.8 |
| 06649b01 Grand St. Paul Cvs, L.L.C. | St. Louis Park | Pharmacies and Drug Stores | C | 3.8 |
| Ardel Engineering & Manufacturing, Inc. | New Hope | Machine shops | C | 3.8 |
| Linc 5537 (Shakopee - F) | Shakopee | Other Support Activities for | C | 3.8 |
| Pillager Elementary School | Pillager | K-12 Education | F | 3.8 |
| Airtex Design Group, Inc | Minneapolis | Curtains and draperies, wind | C | 3.8 |
| Nuss Truck & Equipment- Duluth | Duluth | Truck repair shops, general | D | 3.8 |
| Pine | North Branch | Group homes, intellectual an | C | 3.8 |
| Main Street | Minneapolis | Machine shops | C | 3.8 |
| West Central MN Communities Action, Inc. | Elbow Lake | Community action advocacy or | D | 3.8 |
| Corporate Office | Sleepy Eye | Hog and pig (including breed | C | 3.8 |
| Worthington Public Utilities | Worthington | Power generation, fossil fue | F | 3.8 |
| Twin Cities Orthopedics - Vadnais Heights | Vadnais Heights | Orthopedic physicians' offic | C | 3.8 |
| Contract Production Services Spruce | Little Canada | Kit assembling and packaging | D | 3.8 |
| 1320 Maplewood Clinic Whitebear Ave | Maplewood | Offices of Physicians except | C | 3.8 |
| MN01 Wynne | St. Paul | General warehousing and stor | B | 3.8 |
| Country View Senior Living | Starbuck | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 3.8 |
| United Farmers Cooperative | Lafayette | Farm management services | C | 3.8 |
| 6311 | Shakopee | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | C | 3.8 |
| PHS - Valley Ridge | Burnsville | - | C | 3.8 |
| Road Machinery and Supplies - TriTec | Virginia | Heavy machinery and equipmen | D | 3.8 |
| RC Hospital | Olivia | General medical and surgical | B | 3.8 |
| Shopko Hometown #733 (Fergus Falls, MN) | Fergus Falls | Department Stores | C | 3.8 |
| DGF Sr. High | Glyndon | K-12 Education | F | 3.8 |
| Farmward - Springfield | Springfield | Grain elevators merchant who | D | 3.8 |
| Moorhead | Moorhead | Commercial and Industrial Ma | D | 3.8 |
| Isle #473 | Isle | K-12 Education | F | 3.8 |
| Walker Hackensack Akeley School | Walker | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 3.8 |
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.