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 25 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrestomathy II | Eden Prairie | Activity centers for disable | F | 12.9 |
| City of Richfield - Ice Arena | Richfield | Ice skating rinks | F | 12.9 |
| 4244 Hti.Cen.Mw.Minneapolis. | Saint Paul | Passenger car rental | F | 12.9 |
| City of Mountain Lake | Mountain Lake | General public administratio | F | 12.9 |
| North Central Service, Inc | Bemidji | Fiber optic cable transmissi | F | 12.9 |
| Ace Auto Parts | Saint Paul | Auto salvage yards (i.e., re | F | 12.9 |
| Holland Center | Minnetonka | Counseling services | F | 12.9 |
| St. Cloud Corps | St. Cloud | Religious organizations | F | 12.9 |
| MSP - Ground Ops | Minneapolis | Scheduled Passenger Air Tran | F | 12.8 |
| Surly Brewing Company - BC | Brooklyn Center | Breweries | F | 12.8 |
| Warroad Elementary School | Warroad | K-12 Education | F | 12.8 |
| Great Lakes Management GTHI NorBella Prior Lake | Prior Lake | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 12.8 |
| Schweiss Distributing Inc | Hector | Hangar doors, metal, manufac | F | 12.8 |
| ELC - Cosmos | Cosmos | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 12.8 |
| Quality Refrigeration, Inc. | Richfield | Commercial refrigeration equ | F | 12.8 |
| Autowash Systems, Inc. | New Prague | Car wash equipment and suppl | F | 12.8 |
| City of Eagan - Other General Government Support | Eagan | General services departments | F | 12.8 |
| Midwest Fence | St Paul | Fence installation (except e | F | 12.8 |
| Pelican Valley Senior Living | Pelican Rapids | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 12.8 |
| Zumbrota Health Services | Zumbrota | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 12.8 |
| Simcote, Inc. - MN | St. Paul | Powder coating metals and me | F | 12.8 |
| 04697s Drugstore | Fridley | Pharmacies and drug stores | F | 12.8 |
| Allina Health Blaine Clinic | Blaine | - | F | 12.8 |
| Allina Health Mercy Womens Health Clinic | Coon Rapids | - | F | 12.8 |
| Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center | Baxter | Ambulatory surgical centers | F | 12.8 |
| CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital | St. Cloud | General medical and surgical | D | 12.8 |
| Engel Diversified Ind., Inc. | Jordan | Metal stampings (except auto | F | 12.8 |
| Clyde Machines | Glenwood | Machine bases, metal, manufa | F | 12.8 |
| Far 57 | Little Canada | - | F | 12.8 |
| Recovering Hope Treatment Center Inc | Mora | Substance abuse facilities, | F | 12.8 |
| Msp Msp | St Paul | Other Airport Operations | F | 12.8 |
| Northfield Carrier Annex_1375516 | Northfield | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.8 |
| New Horizon Academy #19 | Rochester | Child day care centers | F | 12.8 |
| 500116100 Bemidji State Univ. | Bemidji | Food Services | F | 12.8 |
| 267961-Roc-Bear Creek Sta | Rochester | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 12.7 |
| Windom Middle/High School | Windom | K-12 Education | F | 12.7 |
| 4021-000016694 | Minneapolis | Food Services | F | 12.7 |
| City of West St. Paul | West St. Paul | General public administratio | F | 12.7 |
| Lead Dog XL LLC | Lakeville | Express delivery services (e | D | 12.7 |
| Brainerd Ambulance | Brainerd | - | F | 12.7 |
| PHS - Mainstreet Village | Richfield | - | F | 12.7 |
| Polyethylene Technology, Inc | Lakeville | Pipe, rigid plastics, manufa | F | 12.7 |
| Supervalu Distribution Center - Minneapolis 31511 | Hopkins | GENERAL-LINE GROCERIES MERCH | F | 12.7 |
| Medford Distribution Center 24 | Medford | Furniture stores (e.g., hous | F | 12.7 |
| Northland Machine Inc | Grand Rapids | Machine shops | F | 12.7 |
| Ecumen Oaks | Hutchinson | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 12.7 |
| Primary School | Zumbrota | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 12.7 |
| FED-ALC | Staples | Educational support services | F | 12.7 |
| NM Amb - Brainerd | Brainerd | - | D | 12.7 |
| Orad Logistics | Burnsville | Express delivery services (e | D | 12.7 |
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.