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 225 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swan Companies, Inc. | Columbia Heights | Excavation contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology-GV | Golden Valley | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | A | 1.8 |
| City of White Bear Lake - City Hall | White Bear Lake | Auditor's offices, governmen | B | 1.8 |
| Walser Nissan Wayzata | Wayzata | Automobile dealers, new only | B | 1.8 |
| Minnesota Corrugated Box, Inc. | Albert Lea | Corrugated and solid fiber b | B | 1.8 |
| Polaris Ind. MCO | Monticello | Automobile hardware, metal, | B | 1.8 |
| Deerfield Imaging Inc. DBA IMRIS | Chaska | Ultrasonic scanning devices, | B | 1.8 |
| HG1021 | St Cloud | Homefurnishings stores | B | 1.8 |
| Forensics Mental Health Program - North Campus | Saint Peter | Alcoholism rehabilitation fa | A | 1.8 |
| American Engineering Testing, Inc. | Saint Paul | Cleaning building interiors | B | 1.8 |
| Bradbury Stamm Construction, Inc | Albuquerque | Institutional building const | B | 1.8 |
| UMC, Inc. | Monticello | Machine shops | B | 1.8 |
| 5 South Court Government Services | Fergus Falls | Public prosecutors' offices | B | 1.8 |
| Card Fullfillment Services Inc - 0057-MNN012 | North Mankato | - | B | 1.8 |
| CN Woodridge | Woodridge | Medical Device Manufacturer | B | 1.8 |
| University of Minnesota Duluth | Duluth | Universities | D | 1.8 |
| Forest Lake YMCA | Forest Lake | - | C | 1.8 |
| Raising Cane'S Chicken Fingers C391 | Eagan | Restaurants, fast food | B | 1.8 |
| Poly-Tex--Consumer Division | Burnsville | Greenhouses, prefabricated m | B | 1.8 |
| LRS - Rochester | Rochester | Other Nonhaz Waste Treat & D | B | 1.8 |
| Chatfield Elementary | Belle Plaine | School districts, elementary | D | 1.8 |
| 3065-Malcom Ave Transfer Station | Minneapolis | Refuse collection services | B | 1.8 |
| LasX Industries, Inc | White Bear Lake | Laser equipment, electromedi | B | 1.8 |
| Albany Senior High | Albany | K-12 Education | D | 1.8 |
| Olmsted Medical Center SE Clinic | Rochester | General medical and surgical | A | 1.8 |
| City Clerk | Minneapolis | Legislative assemblies | B | 1.8 |
| Bridges Medical Center | Ada | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 1.8 |
| Smithfield St. James, MN | St. James | Meat products (e.g., hot dog | B | 1.8 |
| Tti, Inc - Ep | Eden Prairie | Electronic parts (e.g., cond | C | 1.8 |
| Waite Park | Waite Park | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | B | 1.8 |
| Horizon Public Health-Alexandria | Alexandria | Public health program admini | B | 1.8 |
| ISD #100 Wrenshall | Wrenshall | K-12 Education | D | 1.8 |
| Equix Integrity, Inc. - Lake Elmo | Lake Elmo | Sewer cleaning and rodding s | B | 1.8 |
| Marsden Central, LLC | St Paul | - | A | 1.8 |
| Smyth Companies - Corporate, GID, Automation | St. Paul | Print shops, digital (except | B | 1.8 |
| TK Elevator Minneapolis | Minneapolis | Elevator installation conve | B | 1.8 |
| Hibbing Fabricators Inc. | Hibbing | Air cowls, sheet metal (exce | B | 1.8 |
| International Paper Fridley | Fridley | Boxes, corrugated and solid | B | 1.8 |
| St Louis County Schools | Virginia | K-12 Education | D | 1.8 |
| Precision Optics | St. Cloud | Lenses, ophthalmic, manufact | B | 1.8 |
| The Pines Assisted Living | Richfield | Assisted-living facilities w | A | 1.8 |
| 7 | Roseville | - | B | 1.8 |
| Mankato Terminal | N. Mankato | General Freight Trucking, Lo | A | 1.8 |
| RMS Energy Co LLC | Little Falls | Electrical work | B | 1.8 |
| American Fire Protection Group | Edina | Fire sprinkler system instal | B | 1.8 |
| Spronk Brothers III | Edgerton | Administrative Management an | F | 1.8 |
| ISD 284 Wayzata Schools Plymouth Creek Elementary | Plymouth | Academies, elementary or sec | D | 1.8 |
| WABCO-MICO North Mankato | North Mankato | Hydraulic slave cylinders, a | A | 1.8 |
| Interstate Parking Company of Minnesota LLC | Minneapolis | Automobile parking garages o | C | 1.8 |
| Cook Area Health Services - Bigfork Medical Site | Bigfork | General medical and surgical | A | 1.8 |
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.