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 178 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minneapolis Die Casting LLC | Minneapolis | Alumnum Die Casting | C | 3.1 |
| AB Systems Inc. | Rochester | Commercial building construc | C | 3.1 |
| 1695 Cub Foods-Eagan North (Sv 03187 | Eagan | SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE | C | 3.1 |
| Byron Middle School | Byron | K-12 Education | F | 3.1 |
| Horizon Electric Company | Farmington | Electrical contractors | C | 3.1 |
| Johnsville Elementary | Blaine | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 3.1 |
| 1507-Mntc-Mpls - Grace Manor | Minneapolis | RESIDENTIAL AND OUTPATIENT M | C | 3.1 |
| 1507 - Mpls Grace Manor | Minneapolis | Substance abuse facilities, | C | 3.1 |
| Warroad Care Center, Inc | Warroad | Skilled nursing facilities | A | 3.1 |
| Eden Prairie Clinic PrairieCtr | Eden Prairie | Health Services | C | 3.1 |
| AirCorps - Main | Bemidji | Aircraft rebuilding (i.e., r | C | 3.1 |
| Truck Country - Minnesota | New Brighton | Trucks, road, merchant whole | D | 3.1 |
| Fairfield Inn & Suites Minneapolis St Paul Roseville | Roseville | Hotels | C | 3.1 |
| HiMEC Mechanical | Rochester | Air-conditioning system (exc | C | 3.1 |
| Rice County | Faribault | Government base facilities o | D | 3.1 |
| Andersen | Minneapolis | Academies, elementary or sec | F | 3.1 |
| Bethune | Minneapolis | Academies, elementary or sec | F | 3.1 |
| Hastings, MN | Hastings | Seed processing, post-harves | B | 3.1 |
| ABC Supply 008 | St Paul | Roofing, Siding and Insulati | D | 3.1 |
| West Education Center | Minnetonka | High schools | F | 3.1 |
| Full Presence INC d/b/a Simonson's Salon & Spa - Plymouth | Plymouth | Beauty salons | D | 3.1 |
| Columbia Heights ISD #13-Valley View Elementary | Columbia Heights | Independent School District | F | 3.1 |
| 3 Squares Restaurant | Maple Grove | Full service restaurants | C | 3.1 |
| New Horizon Academy #37 | Eagan | Child day care centers | C | 3.1 |
| North Branch County Market - 5609 | North Branch | Grocery Stores | C | 3.1 |
| ISD 911- 302 Isanti Middle School | Isanti | School districts, elementary | F | 3.1 |
| RL Brookdale Honda | Brooklyn Center | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.1 |
| Expert Insulation - Rochester #456 | Rochester | Insulation contractors | C | 3.1 |
| 9347 - Target Corporation Printing Services | Brooklyn Park | - | C | 3.1 |
| Chaska Outlet | Chaska | Thrift shops, used merchandi | C | 3.1 |
| Bloomington MN Thrift Store | Bloomington | Used merchandise stores | C | 3.1 |
| Taylor Machine Inc | Circle Pines | Machine shops | C | 3.1 |
| Anoka County Community Action Program, Inc. | Blaine | Community action advocacy or | D | 3.1 |
| Northland Screw Products, Inc. | St. Francis | Precision turned product man | C | 3.1 |
| Ndx Thoele Dental Laboratory | St Cloud | Dental Laboratories | C | 3.1 |
| Lincoln Elementary School | Owatonna | K-12 Education | F | 3.1 |
| 1562-Wal-Mart Srores Inc | Coon Rapids | Department stores (except di | C | 3.1 |
| Laketown Electric Corporation | Waconia | Electrical contractors | C | 3.1 |
| Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Blue Earth | Blue Earth | - | D | 3.1 |
| CentraCare Plaza | Saint Cloud | Ambulatory Health Care Servi | C | 3.1 |
| 07172b01 Grand St. Paul Cvs, L.L.C. | Minneapolis | Pharmacies and Drug Stores | C | 3.1 |
| ISD# 834-Afton-Lakeland Elementary | Lakeland | Independent School District | F | 3.1 |
| CenterPoint Energy - Evergreen | Coon Rapids | Natural Gas Distribution | F | 3.1 |
| OGI - Edina | Edina | Obstetricians' offices (e.g. | C | 3.1 |
| Engineered Supply, LLC | Bayport | General warehousing and stor | B | 3.1 |
| Pipestone System Mgmt | Pipestone | Administrative Management an | F | 3.1 |
| Bed Bath and Beyond Apple Valley | Apple Valley | retailing new home furnishin | C | 3.1 |
| Henkel US Operations Corp | Cannon Falls | Filters, electronic componen | C | 3.1 |
| Holiday Inn Express and Suites | St Cloud | Hotels (except casino hotels | C | 3.1 |
| Entira Family Clinics - West St Paul | West St. Paul | Family physicians' offices ( | C | 3.1 |
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.