TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.7 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Minnesota workplace safety
How 15,828 OSHA-reporting employers across Minnesota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 13,817 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 15,828
- Employers
- 5.7
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 259,594
- Injuries (all)
- 141
- Fatalities (all)
Minnesota vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
15,828 10th of 54 higher than 44 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Minnesota's 13,817 rated 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 · rated subset
- 13,817
- rated employers
- 15,828
- all reporting employers
- 259,594
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 15,828 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 12% B · 11% C · 25% D · 20% F · 32%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, Minnesota is #40 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 13,817-employer subset), 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 on the same population 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 13,817 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 200 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg 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 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Minnesota: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.7 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (15,828 here).
Look up a Minnesota employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.