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 209 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Litchfield ISD #465-Lake Ripley Elementary | Litchfield | Independent School District | D | 2.3 |
| Walman - Corporate | Minneapolis | Eyeglass frames (i.e., front | B | 2.3 |
| Runnings of Redwood Falls | Redwood Falls | General stores | B | 2.3 |
| Minnesota Department of Public Safety | Saint Paul | Highway patrols, police | B | 2.3 |
| Fairchild Equipment - Ham Lake | Ham Lake | Construction machinery and e | C | 2.3 |
| Knutson Construction Rochester | Rochester | Addition, alteration and ren | B | 2.3 |
| Hammell Equipment Inc | Chatfield | Farm machinery and equipment | C | 2.3 |
| City of Vadnais Heights | Vadnais Heights | City and town councils | B | 2.3 |
| CB Machining & Engineering, Inc | Buffalo | Machine shops | B | 2.3 |
| DoorDash Essentials MSP-1 | Minneapolis | Convenience food stores | B | 2.3 |
| Life By Design Inc | Fridley | IDD Multi-Service | B | 2.3 |
| Danny's Construction Company LLC | Shakopee | Erecting structural steel | C | 2.3 |
| Mpls - Stevens Building | Minneapolis | Substance abuse facilities, | B | 2.3 |
| Pn14 Prior Lake Pn Clinic | Prior Lake | Offices of Physicians except | B | 2.3 |
| 2313 Lowe S of W. St. Paul Mn | West St Paul | Homecenter | B | 2.3 |
| Monogram Meat Snacks LLC | Chandler | SAUSAGES AND OTHER PREPARED | B | 2.3 |
| Quality Tech Services, LLC | Elk River | Ultrasonic scanning devices, | B | 2.3 |
| Jim Lupient Infiniti | Golden Valley | Automobile dealers, new only | B | 2.3 |
| ISD 284 Wayzata Schools Meadow Ridge Elementary | Plymouth | Academies, elementary or sec | D | 2.3 |
| Road Machinery and Supplies - Savage | Savage | Construction machinery and e | C | 2.3 |
| 4769-717-Williams Sonoma | Edina | Furniture Merchant Wholesale | C | 2.3 |
| BCSI | Burnsville | Offset printing (except book | B | 2.3 |
| Primary School | Watertown | K-12 Education | D | 2.3 |
| Twin Cities Appliance Service Center | Hopkins | Appliance, household-type, r | C | 2.3 |
| FirstService Residential Minnesota, Downtown Office | Minneapolis | Residential property managin | D | 2.3 |
| Maple Grove Senior High | Maple Grove | Elementary and secondary sch | D | 2.3 |
| 2662-3072 | Burnsville | Bus operation, school and em | B | 2.3 |
| Covanta Hennepin Energy Resource Co, LLC | Minneapolis | Solid waste combustors and i | C | 2.3 |
| Wadena MN Truss | Wadena | Engineered Wood Member Manuf | B | 2.3 |
| Pennington County Government Center | Thief River Falls | General services departments | B | 2.3 |
| Runnings of Austin | Austin | General stores | B | 2.3 |
| Family Life Mental Health | Coon Rapids | Other Individual and Family | B | 2.3 |
| BI-County Community Action Program, INC Bemidji Head Start Building A | Bemidji | Community chests | C | 2.3 |
| McKinley School | Fergus Falls | Elementary schools | D | 2.3 |
| Gartner Refrigeration | Plymouth | Refrigeration system (e.g., | C | 2.3 |
| City of Corcoran City Hall | Corcoran | City and town managers' offi | B | 2.3 |
| Maud Borup Inc | Le Center | Chocolate candy merchant who | C | 2.3 |
| Allstate Parts of Sauk Rapids | Sauk Rapids | Automotive parts and supply | B | 2.3 |
| Woodstone Inc | Brooklyn Park | Commercial building construc | B | 2.3 |
| HOM Flooring | Anoka | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | B | 2.3 |
| Highland Elementary School | Crookston | Elementary and secondary sch | D | 2.3 |
| Knife River Materials - Asphalt | Bemidji | Pavement, highway, road, str | C | 2.3 |
| Red Wagon Pizza Company | Minneapolis | Full service restaurants | B | 2.3 |
| Dayton | Maple Grove | Commercial and Industrial Ma | C | 2.3 |
| Zooper Foods at The Como Zoo | Saint Paul | Food Service Contractors | B | 2.3 |
| HDC Cloquet Campus | Cloquet | Outpatient mental health cen | B | 2.3 |
| Blk Electric | N Mankato | Electrical contractors | C | 2.3 |
| Palmer Bus Service of New London-Spicer, Inc. | New London | School bus services | B | 2.3 |
| Hole Products, LLC | Little Falls | Pipeline machinery and equip | C | 2.3 |
| Rainbow Seating, LLC | Bloomington | Countertops, wood, manufactu | B | 2.3 |
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.