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 23 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inter-Faith Care Center | Carlton | Nursing homes | F | 13.2 |
| Central Turf Farms | Forest Lake | Nursery and garden centers w | F | 13.2 |
| Marshall Public School | Marshall | K-12 Education | F | 13.2 |
| Lemke Home Improvements, Inc. | Moorhead | Siding contractors | F | 13.2 |
| Unit #0738 | Detroit Lakes | Retail | F | 13.2 |
| 2548-00000462 | Burnsville | Pet and Pet Supplies Stores | F | 13.2 |
| Blaine Brothers, Inc. - N.A. Trailer Sales - IGH | Inver Grove Hts | Tow truck services | F | 13.2 |
| 261101-Bra-Baxter Carrier Anx | Baxter | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 13.2 |
| Edwards Manufacturing Company | Albert Lea | Metal cutting machine tools | F | 13.2 |
| Southview - Shoreview Senior Living | Shoreview | Assisted Living | F | 13.2 |
| Minnesota Correctional Facility - Stillwater | Bayport | Correctional institutions | F | 13.2 |
| North Memorial Health Care | Robbinsdale | - | D | 13.2 |
| 989 Main Street | Courtland | Fabricated structural metal | F | 13.2 |
| North Central Garage Door Company | Bemidji | Garage doors, metal, manufac | F | 13.2 |
| Elemet Manufacturing, Inc | Aitkin | Machine tools, metal cutting | F | 13.2 |
| Fire Station 4 | Eden Prairie | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 13.2 |
| Zerorez | St Louis Park | Carpet cleaning on customers | F | 13.2 |
| AHMHI Clinic St Paul | St. Paul | - | F | 13.2 |
| Progressive Care Pelican Landing | Detroit Lakes | Assisted Living | F | 13.2 |
| JPI | Waseca | Vocational rehabilitation or | F | 13.2 |
| Aggressive Industries Inc - North Plant | Spring Lake Park | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | F | 13.1 |
| CentraCare Health Paynesville Koronis Manor | Paynesville | Nursing homes | F | 13.1 |
| Riverwind | Coon Rapids | Other Individual and Family | F | 13.1 |
| Spectrum Metal Finishing | Isle | Electroplating metals and fo | F | 13.1 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC - DMS1 | Eagan | Couriers and Express Deliver | F | 13.1 |
| Allina Health Coon Rapids Clinic | Coon Rapids | - | F | 13.1 |
| Wo Worthington | Jackson | Freight Trucking LTL | F | 13.1 |
| RICHFIELD_1439053 | Minneapolis | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 13.1 |
| Bemidji Community Behavioral Health Hospital | Bemidji | Hospitals, mental (except in | F | 13.1 |
| City of Ramsey - Public Works Facility | Ramsey | Municipality | F | 13.1 |
| Troutbrook | St. Paul | Concrete products, precast ( | F | 13.1 |
| Anoka-Champlin Fire Department | Anoka | - | F | 13.1 |
| North Central Door Co LLC | Bemidji | Garage doors, metal, manufac | F | 13.1 |
| Stewart Store | Stewart | Farm machinery and equipment | F | 13.1 |
| Frattallones Wacomia | Wacomia | Hardware stores | F | 13.1 |
| Bethany on the Lake | Alexandria | SNF | F | 13.1 |
| Gopher State Concrete, Inc | Apple Valley | Footing and foundation concr | F | 13.1 |
| Architectural Sales of MN, Inc. | Brooklyn Center | Acoustical ceiling tile and | F | 13.1 |
| 134 Medford Block | Medford | Precast concrete block and b | F | 13.1 |
| Big Lots Store #4585 Woodbury, MN | Woodbury | Retail Other | F | 13.1 |
| B & D Plumbing, Heating & AC Inc. | St Michael | Air-conditioning system (exc | F | 13.1 |
| Northern Iron & Machine - Foundry | St. Paul | Iron foundries | F | 13.1 |
| Sunnyside Care Center | Lake Park | Homes for the aged with nurs | F | 13.1 |
| Elim Shores Independent and Assisted Living | Eden Prairie | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 13.1 |
| City Hall | Saint Charles | General public administratio | F | 13.1 |
| Plekkenpol Builders, Inc. | Bloomington | Construction management, res | F | 13.1 |
| ARK Parent, LLC | New Hope | Plumbing and heating contrac | F | 13.1 |
| Hermantown | Hermantown | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | F | 13.1 |
| Police Department | Rochester | Police departments (except A | F | 13.1 |
| Chrestomathy of Dakota County | Burnsville | Activity centers for disable | F | 13.1 |
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.