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 248 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 495 - Plymouth, Mn | Plymouth | Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl | B | 1.2 |
| High School Employees | Little Falls | High schools | C | 1.2 |
| ISD# 834-Rutherford Elementary | Stillwater | Independent School District | C | 1.2 |
| St. Michael - Albertville Middle School West | Albertville | School districts, elementary | C | 1.2 |
| Admin MN | Saint Paul | Hockey clubs, professional o | A | 1.2 |
| Minnesota Oncology - Burnsville | Burnsville | - | A | 1.2 |
| Lakewood Elementary School | Duluth | Elementary and secondary sch | C | 1.2 |
| Metro | Brooklyn Park | Fixtures, store display, man | A | 1.2 |
| Schoenfelder Renovations | Minnetonka | Painting (except roof) contr | A | 1.2 |
| Richfield Municipal Center | Richfield | Executive offices, federal, | A | 1.2 |
| Carris Health Clinic Litchfield | Litchfield | Family physicians' offices ( | A | 1.2 |
| Lundell Manufacturing Corporation | Plymouth | Gaskets manufacturing | A | 1.2 |
| Hutchinson Technology Inc. - Hutchinson, MN | Hutchinson | Disk drives, computer, manuf | A | 1.1 |
| 71238 | Rochester | Department Stores | A | 1.1 |
| Walser Nissan | Burnsville | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 1.1 |
| Torrini Companies | Minneapolis | Painting and wallpapering | A | 1.1 |
| Melrose Live Haul | Melrose | Poultry catching services | A | 1.1 |
| Weis Builders - Rochester | Rochester | Commercial building construc | A | 1.1 |
| 3063-Rosemount Landfill | Rosemount | Landfills | A | 1.1 |
| ISD 709 East High School | Duluth | High schools | C | 1.1 |
| Twin Cities Orthopedics - Burnsville | Burnsville | Orthopedic physicians' offic | A | 1.1 |
| ISD #700 Elementary School | Hermantown | School districts, elementary | C | 1.1 |
| Carleton College | Northfield | Colleges, universities, and | C | 1.1 |
| Oakdale Bldg 502 | Oakdale | - | B | 1.1 |
| ITW/Hobart Service -Minneapolis Branch | Edina | Food machinery repair and ma | B | 1.1 |
| Mn Gastro Endoscopy Center St Paul | St Paul | Gastroenterologists' offices | A | 1.1 |
| Little Falls Public School District-Community | Little Falls | Independent School District | C | 1.1 |
| Michael Foods Inc.- GY2 | Gaylord | Chicken egg production | A | 1.1 |
| Hennepin Sqare | Minneapolis | Physicians', mental health, | A | 1.1 |
| District Wide | Kasson | K-12 Education | C | 1.1 |
| Mindware - Roseville | Roseville | Mail-order houses | A | 1.1 |
| Century College | White Bear Lake | Academies, college or univer | C | 1.1 |
| New Prague High School | New Prague | High schools | C | 1.1 |
| System Services | Pipestone | - | F | 1.1 |
| Harris Saint Paul, inc. | Saint Paul | Mechanical contractors | A | 1.1 |
| Elevator Works Inc | Lamberton | Grain elevator construction | A | 1.1 |
| RLCC Elementary | Plummer | K-12 Education | C | 1.1 |
| 1685 | West St. Paul | Periodicals commercial print | A | 1.1 |
| Halverson Elementary | Albert Lea | Elementary schools | C | 1.1 |
| Motion Systems : New Ulm | New Ulm | Motors and Generators | A | 1.1 |
| Omega Property Management | Maple Grove | Residential property managin | C | 1.1 |
| Data Center | Mendota Heights | Health insurance carriers, d | F | 1.1 |
| Plymouth FS (SSS, CSS) | Plymouth | Security alarm systems sales | A | 1.1 |
| Covenant Living of Golden Valley | Minneapolis | Continuing Care Retirement C | A | 1.1 |
| Community Addiction Recovery Enterprise - CARE Anoka | Anoka | Alcoholism rehabilitation fa | A | 1.1 |
| Benchmark Electronics Minnesota Division Rochester | Rochester | Printed circuit assemblies m | A | 1.1 |
| 000008833 - Us Bank Stadium - Suites | Minneapolis | Food Services | A | 1.1 |
| Woodbury Woodlane Dr | Woodbury | - | F | 1.1 |
| STS Operating - Granite Falls | Granite Falls | Industrial equipment and mac | B | 1.1 |
| Campbell | Tintah | Dairy cattle farming | A | 1.1 |
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.