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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.

Minnesota grade distribution 15,820 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Minnesota'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 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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
Middle School Cokato K 12 Education D 2.7
West Central Sanitation Willmar Rubbish (i.e., nonhazardous C 2.7
CenterPoint Energy - Golden Valley Bldg C and A Minneapolis Natural Gas Distribution F 2.7
holmberg Co. Inc. Plymouth Converted paper (except stat D 2.7
Kent Precision Foods Group- Foley Foley Food, prepared, perishable, B 2.7
Riverside Gen Plant-TK Minneapolis Fossil Fuel Electric Generat F 2.7
Rise Baking Company- New French Bakery 828 Minneapolis Bakery products, dry (e.g., C 2.7
Lunds & Byerlys, Golden Valley Golden Valley Food (i.e., groceries) store C 2.7
Mn Gastro St Paul 1997 Sloan St Paul Gastroenterologists' offices B 2.7
St. CLoud Casting St. Cloud Iron foundries C 2.7
06 - Lakeville Distribution Lakeville Siding (except wood) merchan D 2.7
Headquarters Minneapolis Plastics basic shapes (e.g., D 2.7
K-M Community Ed Kasson K-12 Education D 2.7
1459-0140 Minneapolis Elementary and Secondary Sch D 2.7
New Ulm New Ulm Creamery butter manufacturin C 2.7
Brown County Sheriff's Office - Police Protection New Ulm Sheriffs' offices (except co C 2.7
HLWW High School Howard Lake K-12 Education D 2.7
MN,Thief River Falls-Downtown Campus-Psychiatric And Substance Abuse Hospitals Thief River Falls Mental health hospitals B 2.7
12535s Drugstore North Mankato Pharmacies and drug stores C 2.7
Graham Tire - Fairmont Fairmont Tire dealers, automotive C 2.7
Access Genetics Eden Prairie Testing laboratories, medica B 2.7
Bell Lumber & Pole - New Brighton New Brighton Treating purchased wood and C 2.7
Isd #308 Nevis K-12 Education D 2.7
Ace Telephone Association Houston Houston Internet service providers, F 2.7
Metal Craft Engineering Elk River Instruments, mechanical micr C 2.7
Benson Ave Plant Willmar Poultry (e.g., canned, cooke C 2.7
Brookdale Mankato Mankato Assisted-living facilities w B 2.7
Torax Medical Shoreview Surgical implants manufactur C 2.7
Augustana Regent Bville 266 Burnsville Convalescent homes or conval A 2.7
Dry Storage Marshall WE A 2.7
M. G. McGrath, Inc. Glass & Glazing Maplewood Curtain wall, glass, install C 2.7
MN Northfield Trucking, general freight, l B 2.7
1641 Cub Foods-Arden Hills (Sv 03153 Arden Hills SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE C 2.7
City of Waseca - City Hall Waseca General services departments C 2.7
Graco Inc. - French Lake Dayton Pump and pumping equipment m C 2.7
Summit Hill Senior Living Saint Paul Assisted Living B 2.7
482323 Mn 307 12th Ave S Buffalo Corporate, Subsidary and Reg F 2.7
NEI Electric, Inc Saint Paul Electrical contractors C 2.7
Sherco Generating Plant Becker Fossil Fuel Electric Generat F 2.7
S05870 - Twin Cities MRF - Minneapolis Minneapolis - C 2.7
MN,THIEF RIVER FALLS - Downtown Campus - Psychiatric and Substance Abuse Hospitals Thief River Falls Psychiatric and Substance Ab B 2.7
EPCO Minnetonka Arrestors and coils, lightin C 2.7
Harvard Maintenance Inc of Minnesotta Minneapolis Building cleaning services, B 2.7
South Lake Clinic, P.A. Minnetonka Pediatricians' (except menta B 2.7
IND SCH DISTRICT $#270 - Alice Smith Hopkins Elementary and secondary sch D 2.7
CentraCare Sleep Center St Cloud Sleep disorder centers and c B 2.7
First Independent Bank Russell Banks, commercial F 2.7
Friedges Contracting Co, LLC Lakeville Utility line (i.e., sewer, w C 2.7
Mounds View High School Arden Hills Elementary and secondary sch D 2.7
Olmsted County Rochester General public administratio C 2.7
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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.

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.