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Minnesota workplace safety

Name: Minnesota Employer Workplace Safety Data
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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).

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · September 26, 2026

15,828
Employers: 5.7
Avg TCR (rated): 259,594
Injuries (all): 141
Fatalities (all)

TCR, interpreted

Far above average

5.7 avg TCR

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

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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.

Minnesota grade distribution 15,820 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

Minnesota'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

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Employer	City	Industry	Grade	Avg TCR
Eye Clinic of Faribault DBA Richie Eye Clinic	Faribault	Ophthalmologists' offices (e	A	0.7
Minnesota	Minneapolis	Precision turned product man	A	0.7
Wright County- Health & Human Services	Buffalo	Community health programs ad	A	0.7
Sodexo at Cargill Incorporated-Cafeteria	Wayzata	Food Service Contractors	A	0.7
Valley Transportation Terminal	Grand Meadow	Trucking terminals, independ	A	0.7
Centennial Elementary School	Circle Pines	Elementary and secondary sch	B	0.7
Ames Construction	Burnsville	Overpass construction	A	0.7
MTS Systems	Eden Prairie	Detectors, scintillation, ma	A	0.7
Stryker Wright - Bloomington, MN	Bloomington	Orthopedic equipment and sup	A	0.7
HE-Midway Corporate Campus	Saint Paul	-	A	0.7
Textron Specialized Vehicles - Arctic Cat Thief River Falls	Thief River Falls	All-terrain vehicles (ATVs),	A	0.7
Mactac Minneapolis	Minneapolis	Paper Bag and Coated and Tre	A	0.7
Norminn All	Clearbook	Millwrights	A	0.7
University of Minnesota Physicians	Minneapolis	Family physicians' offices (	A	0.7
Blattner Energy Inc	Avon	Alternative energy (e.g., ge	A	0.7
Cargill Industrial Specialties - Plymouth, MN	Plymouth	Oils (e.g., cutting, lubrica	A	0.7
Augustana Mt Olivet - GRACE Hospice #865	Minneapolis	Hospices, inpatient care	A	0.7
SFM Mutual Insurance Company	Bloomington	Disability insurance carrier	D	0.7
AZCO INC. - Pine Bend Refinery	Rosemount	Refinery, petroleum, constru	A	0.7
Communications	Minneapolis	General Government	A	0.7
HEADB	Winona	Industrial Supplies Merchant	A	0.7
East River Branch	Rochester	Mutual savings banks	D	0.7
Little Canada Elementary School	Little Canada	Elementary and Secondary Sch	A	0.7
Conductive Containers	Maple Grove	Cartons, folding (except mil	A	0.7
Lunds - Woodbury	Woodbury	Supermarkets	A	0.7
Health & Human Services	Buffalo	Administration of Public Hea	A	0.7
Customer Call Center	Golden Valley	Administrative management se	A	0.7
IFP/Balchem	Faribault	Powders, baking, manufacturi	A	0.7
Brown County	New Ulm	General services departments	A	0.7
Ryan Chevrolet Cadillac Inc.	Buffalo	Automobile dealers, new only	A	0.7
Minnesota Department of Health - Golden Rule	St Paul	Environmental health program	A	0.7
Teachers Retirement Association	St Paul	Pension plans (e.g., employe	D	0.7
Town Square Tower	St Paul	Executive offices, federal,	A	0.7
Washington County Headwaters Service Center	Forest Lake	General services departments	A	0.7
EP Minnetonka MN	Minnetonka	Electromedical and Electroth	A	0.7
Auditor	Duluth	-	A	0.7
Chanhassen Office	Chanhassen	Orthopedic equipment and sup	A	0.7
Kraemer North America - MN All Others	Burnsville	Pavement, highway, road, str	A	0.7
Holiday Inn Express	Winona	Hotels (except casino hotels	A	0.7
Palmer Bus Service of Princeton, Inc.	Princeton	School bus services	A	0.7
ISD 709 Ordean East Middle School	Duluth	Middle schools	A	0.7
Red Wing	Red Wing	Hospitals, general medical a	A	0.7
MN.BLOOM.1 - Ricoh Usa, Inc.	Bloomington	Office Equipment	A	0.7
EP / SH Plymouth MN	Plymouth	Medical Device Manufacturer	A	0.7
I & S Group Inc	Mankato	Acoustical engineering consu	D	0.7
4039-02834000-00W008	Mankato	Electronic Components, Not e	A	0.7
Coborn Cancer Center	St. Cloud	Infusion therapy centers and	A	0.7
All Home Caring	Minneapolis	Home health care agencies	A	0.7
Crown Cork & Seal USA, Inc. - Faribault Plant	Faribault	Aerosol cans, light gauge me	A	0.7
Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency	Rochester	Power generation, fossil fue	B	0.7

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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).

Iowa TCR 5.8 New Mexico TCR 5.6 Wyoming TCR 5.9 Massachusetts TCR 5.5

Similar employer inventory

Nearest states by reporting employer count (15,828 here).

Michigan 16,393 emp. Georgia 14,941 emp. North Carolina 16,981 emp. Wisconsin 12,835 emp.

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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.