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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
Lakeville South HS (LSHS) Lakeville Elementary and secondary sch D 2.7
071704 Kindercare Eagan Child Care Services B 2.7
Encore at Hugo Hugo Assisted Living Facilities f B 2.7
Prairie View Middle School Otsego Elementary and secondary sch D 2.7
00330 - Hermanson Maplewood Dental laboratories C 2.7
1550 Olivia Hospital Olivia General Medical and Surgical A 2.7
Liberty Packaging, Golden Valley Golden Valley Boxes, corrugated and solid C 2.7
Brenk Brothers Inc. Fridley Machine shops C 2.7
Safety Rail Company, LLC Spring Park Pipe railings, metal, manufa C 2.7
Chaska Chaska Family restaurants, limited- C 2.7
The Bernard Group (TBG2) Chanhassen Digital printing (e.g., bill C 2.7
Centennial Middle School Lino Lakes Academies, elementary or sec D 2.7
Westwood Ridge I West St.Paul Assisted-living facilities w B 2.7
Olivia Hospital and Clinics Olivia General medical and surgical A 2.7
Central Pet Group, LLC (Burnsville) Burnsville Pet food merchant wholesaler D 2.7
Hammer Residences Wayzata, Mn Activity centers for disable B 2.7
Christensen Farms & Feedlot Sleepy Eye Pig farming B 2.7
CommonBond: Corporate, AS, Small Sites St. Paul Subdividing real estate C 2.7
268333-Stp-Apple Valley Br Saint Paul Mail and Parcel Delivery B 2.7
Hillyard Hutchinson Hutchinson Janitorial chemicals merchan D 2.7
Smithfield Direct - Eagan Eagan Grocery delivery services (i B 2.7
Forest Lake Chevrolet Cadillac Forest Lake Automobile dealers, new only B 2.7
Eagle Point Elementary Oakdale Elementary and secondary sch D 2.7
Entira Family Clinics - White Bear Lake Banning White Bear Lake Family physicians' offices ( B 2.7
Chard Excavating Belle Plaine Curbs and street gutters, hi C 2.7
1658 Cub Foods-Brnsvlle Heart of the Burnsville SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER GROCE B 2.7
Pequot Lakes - 30965 2nd St Pequot Lakes - F 2.7
Mid-States Mechanical Services, Inc. Mankato Mechanical contractors C 2.7
Minnesota Valley Cooperative Center #978 Granite Falls Educational support services D 2.7
HQ Facility Carver Rubber and Foam Manufacturin C 2.7
Northland High School Remer K-12 Education D 2.7
Pnpk Golden Valley Struthers P Ctr Golden Valley Services for the Elderly and B 2.7
Enebak Construction Company Lakeville Construction management, hig C 2.7
Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Albert Lea Albert Lea - D 2.7
Blue Lake Wastewater Treatment Facility Shakopee Sewage treatment plants or f F 2.7
Anoka RiverWay Clinic 601 Anoka Health maintenance organizat B 2.7
Creation Technologies Minnesota Inc Saint Peter Printed circuit assemblies m C 2.7
Water Gremlin Co. White Bear Lake Township Lead die-castings, unfinishe C 2.7
Con-Tek Machine St. Paul Plastics working machinery m C 2.7
University of Minnesota Minneapolis Local bus services (except m B 2.7
West Annex Building Duluth Private warehousing and stor A 2.7
Support Services Building Duluth Administrative management se C 2.7
Burnsville CE Burnsville Commercial and Industrial Ma D 2.7
RLG - Cypress Multigraphics MN Brooklyn Center Paper Bag and Coated and Tre C 2.7
Doghouse Dyeworks LLC Detroit Lakes Dyeing textile products and C 2.7
Doboszenski and Sons, Inc. Loretto Excavating, earthmoving, or C 2.7
Palmer West Construction Company Inc Rogers Low slope roofing installati C 2.7
Coon Rapids High Coon Rapids Elementary and secondary sch D 2.7
ZIMMERMAN_1388589 Zimmerman Mail and Parcel Delivery B 2.7
ACP - West St. Paul West St Paul Clinical psychologists' offi B 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.