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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
MSP New Brighton General freight trucking, lo B 2.5
Pike Lake School Duluth K-12 Education D 2.5
Fourth Avenue Homes Willmar Adult and Child corporate fo B 2.5
TCBX Trucking Brainerd LTL (less-than-truckload) lo B 2.5
University Crossing Saint Paul - C 2.5
EMS - Savage Senior Living Savage - B 2.5
Murphy Logistics Solutions - Minneapolis Minneapolis General warehousing and stor A 2.5
6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0360 Mankato - C 2.5
The Thymes, LLC Minneapolis General merchandise, nondura C 2.5
South Plant Mankato Sporting goods (except ammun B 2.5
2967-MN110 Jackson Electromedical & Electrother B 2.5
MN Plant Savage Concrete product (e.g., stru C 2.5
City of Faribault - Public Works Department Faribault General Public Administratio B 2.5
Integrated Home Care St Paul Home health care agencies A 2.5
rms Surgical Anoka Anoka Bone drills manufacturing B 2.5
Faribault - Aldi Faribault Transportation B 2.5
Buick GMC Roseville Roseville Automobile dealers, new only B 2.5
North High School North St. Paul Elementary and secondary sch D 2.5
Lake Elmo Inn Lake Elmo Full service restaurants C 2.5
Otter Lake Technologies White Bear Township Lead die-castings, unfinishe B 2.5
Morrell Transfer Inc. Elk River Bulk mail truck transportati B 2.5
Big Woods Elementary St. Michael Boarding schools, elementary D 2.5
Ultra Optics Brooklyn Park Primers, paint, manufacturin B 2.5
ISD #700 Middle School Hermantown School districts, elementary D 2.5
Mankato: Telecom Mankato Telecomunications F 2.5
10119 Uptown Minneapolis Minneapolis - B 2.5
DenWin Inc New Prague Hardware stores B 2.5
Minnesota North College - Vermilion Campus Ely Colleges, community D 2.5
Monticello Training Ctr-LL Monticello Nuclear Electric Power Gener F 2.5
ISD 492 Austin AALASEC Coop Austin Academies, elementary or sec D 2.5
Maple Grove PN Clinic Maple Grove Health Services B 2.5
Victoria's Secret Store (1317) Maple Grove Clothing stores, women's and B 2.5
886 Roseville, Mn Roseville Family Clothing Stores B 2.5
Birch Tree Center Duluth Mental health facilities, re B 2.5
City of Two Harbors Two Harbors Advisory commissions, execut B 2.5
St. Michael-Albertville High School Saint Michael High schools D 2.5
Davannins Inc. Plymouth Plymouth Pizza parlors, limited-servi C 2.5
Department of Human Resources Saint Paul Personnel offices, governmen B 2.5
Duluth Fish Hatchery Duluth Fish and game agencies B 2.5
071702 Kindercare Vadnais Heights Child Care Services B 2.5
2764 Usmn-Maplewood Maplewood General Warehousing and Stor A 2.5
Central Education Center Stewartville K-12 Education D 2.5
The Beacon at Lake Crystal Lake Crystal Home care of elderly, medica A 2.5
S04231 - MN St Cloud St. Cloud - C 2.5
Loram Fleet/Operations Hamel Maintenance of rights-of-way B 2.5
Quad Cities Cable Communications Commission Champlin General public administratio B 2.5
Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust Stillwater Rate making services, insura F 2.5
LaBounty Manufacturing Two Harbors Crushing machinery, portable B 2.5
Brooklyn Park Warehouse Brooklyn Park Architectural metalwork merc C 2.5
Hormel Foods - Austin Austin Processed meats manufacturin B 2.5
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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.