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 236 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Border States Electric - Albertville | Albertville | Construction materials, elec | B | 1.5 |
| Jostens - Owatonna STN | Owatonna | Smelting and refining of non | A | 1.5 |
| Minnesota Office | Lakeville | Natural gas pipeline constru | B | 1.5 |
| United Hardware Distributing Co - Corporate Office | Plymouth | Hardware (except motor vehic | B | 1.5 |
| Middle School | New Ulm | K-12 Education | C | 1.5 |
| Shutterfly Shakopee | Shakopee | - | A | 1.5 |
| Coon Rapids Nissan | Coon Rapids | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 1.5 |
| Trident Seafoods | Motley | Seafood and seafood products | A | 1.5 |
| Austin Public Schools District Office | Austin | School districts, elementary | C | 1.5 |
| Ellingson Companies | West Concord Mn | Construction management, wat | B | 1.5 |
| Loeffler Construction & Consulting | Lakeville | Commercial building construc | B | 1.5 |
| Dmj Asphalt Inc | Medina | Paving, residential and comm | B | 1.5 |
| Northern Dewatering Inc | Rogers | Dewatering contractors | B | 1.5 |
| Woodbury Dental and Eye | Woodbury | Dentists' offices (e.g., cen | A | 1.5 |
| Trident Seafoods- Motley | Motley | Seafood and seafood products | A | 1.5 |
| The St. Cloud Village | St. Cloud | Counseling services | A | 1.5 |
| Valley Medical and Wellness | Burnsville | Medical doctors' (MDs, excep | A | 1.5 |
| RMB Environmental Laboratories, Inc. | Detroit Lakes | Environmental testing labora | F | 1.5 |
| FWB New York Mills | New York Mills | Aluminum FIsh Boat Manufactu | A | 1.5 |
| Springfield Elementary | Springfield | K-12 Education | C | 1.5 |
| District Wide | St. James | K-12 Education | C | 1.5 |
| International Paper - Arden Hills | Arden Hills | Shipping containers made fro | A | 1.5 |
| Pn1d St Louis Pk Specialty Ctr 3931 | St Louis Park | Offices of Physicians except | A | 1.5 |
| Textron Specialized Vehicles - Arctic Cat St. Cloud | St. Cloud | All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), | A | 1.5 |
| Whitney Sleep Diagnostics & Consultants | Detroit Lakes | Clinics/centers of health pr | A | 1.5 |
| Central MN Mental Health Center - Waite Park | Waite Park | Community health centers and | A | 1.5 |
| Ventura Foods Albert Lea | Albert Lea | Margarines (including imitat | A | 1.5 |
| MME Group Inc. | Vadnais Heights | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | A | 1.5 |
| PCL Construction Services, Inc. Minneapolis | Edina | Construction management, com | B | 1.5 |
| Edina ISD #273 Valley View Middle School | Edina | Elementary and secondary sch | C | 1.5 |
| WuXi AppTec STP Main | Saint Paul | Biotechnology research and d | F | 1.5 |
| 55491 Delta Shuttle | Minneapolis | Airport shuttle services | A | 1.5 |
| Classic Acrylics, Inc. | Elk River | Laminated plastics plate, ro | A | 1.5 |
| Minnesota Department of Health - Rochester | Rochester | Environmental health program | A | 1.5 |
| The Jamar Company | Duluth | Specialty Contractor | B | 1.5 |
| S04231 - MN St Cloud | Saint Cloud | - | B | 1.5 |
| Precision Technologies, Inc | Monticello | Machine shops | A | 1.5 |
| MinnState - Northland Community and Technical College East Grand Forks | East Grand Forks | Academies, junior college | C | 1.5 |
| Ndx Twin Cities Laboratories | Falcon Heights | Dental Laboratories | A | 1.5 |
| City of Annandale | Annandale | Auditor's offices, governmen | A | 1.5 |
| Minnesota Department of Transportation Central Office | St. Paul | Transportation departments, | A | 1.5 |
| 2330 Woodbury Dental Eye Dept | Woodbury | Offices of Dentists | A | 1.5 |
| City of Benson | Benson | Local Govt Utilities | A | 1.5 |
| Baker Square - Coon Rapids | Coon Rapids | Family restaurants, limited- | A | 1.5 |
| Chart Inc | New Prague | Vessels, heavy gauge metal, | A | 1.5 |
| 79 Eagan | Eagan | Department Store | A | 1.5 |
| International Paper - Austin | Austin | Boxes, corrugated and solid | A | 1.5 |
| Vista Technologies | Stillwater | Awnings, rigid plastics or f | A | 1.5 |
| Mid-State Truck Service Inc | Duluth | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 1.5 |
| Nova-Tech @ 1707, 36 | Willmar | - | A | 1.5 |
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.