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 275 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richfield Best Buy Office Bldg | Richfield | Health insurance carriers, d | A | 0.2 |
| Thomson Reuters - Eagan | Eagan | Software publishers | A | 0.2 |
| Graco Inc. - Riverside Office Complex | Minneapolils | Corporate, Subsidiary, and R | A | 0.2 |
| MGK-HQ | Minneapolis | Pesticides manufacturing | A | 0.2 |
| Cassia | Edina | Centralized administrative o | A | 0.2 |
| One Corporate Center II | Edina | - | A | 0.2 |
| 323 Stinson | Minneapolis | - | A | 0.2 |
| Sw-20730207-Fo Msp - Minneapolis | Minneapolis | Transportation Air Carriers | A | 0.2 |
| Pnws Hopkins Westside Business Ctr | Hopkins | Home Health Care Services | A | 0.2 |
| Office Center | Wayzata | Corporate offices | A | 0.2 |
| Cargill Research and Development - Minneapolis R&D Center | Plymouth | Physical science research an | A | 0.2 |
| Shoeneckers Inc dba BI Worldwide | Minneapolis | CAD (computer-aided design) | A | 0.2 |
| Enbridge Energy - East Duluth Office | Duluith | Pipeline transportation, cru | A | 0.2 |
| Land O'Lakes - Arden Hills Corporate Offices | Arden Hills | Corporate offices | A | 0.2 |
| Mn008 Minnetonka-9900 Bren Rd East | Minnetonka | Direct Health and Medical In | A | 0.2 |
| City of Minneapolis - Information Technology | Minneapolis | General services departments | A | 0.2 |
| 2573-MN955 | Minneapolis | Direct Health and Medical In | A | 0.2 |
| BCS-AIS Customer Center | Winona | Electrical testing laborator | A | 0.2 |
| Bloomington Ceridian Bldg | Bloomington | Medical insurance carriers, | A | 0.2 |
| Milk Specialties Global Eden Prairie | Eden Prairie | Condensed, evaporated or pow | A | 0.2 |
| Michels Utility Services Inc-MN-Ostego | Ostego | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 0.2 |
| HQ Roseville | Roseville | Other Chemical and Allied Pr | A | 0.2 |
| ReSound | Bloomington | Hearing aids, electronic, ma | A | 0.2 |
| CommonBond: Skyline | Saint Paul | Real estate (except cemeteri | A | 0.2 |
| Ergotron, Inc | Eagan | Chairs (except wood), office | A | 0.2 |
| Mn Gastro Corporate | Minneapolis | Gastroenterologists' offices | A | 0.2 |
| Infinite Campus, Inc. | Blaine | Computer program or software | A | 0.2 |
| City of Willmar - Wastewater Treatment Plant | Willmar | City and town managers' offi | A | 0.2 |
| Comm HVAC NA and EMEA : MFG-St. Paul, MN-USA | St. Paul | 0 | A | 0.2 |
| Winona Site Ticona Polymers Inc. | Winona | Thermoplastic resins and pla | A | 0.1 |
| Prinsco, Inc. - Willmar | Willmar | Fittings, rigid plastics pip | A | 0.1 |
| SEH - St. Paul | St. Paul | Engineering Services | A | 0.1 |
| Mn017 Minnetonka-9700 Health Care Ln | Minnetonka | Direct Health and Medical In | A | 0.1 |
| Rosemount Aerospace Inc (Burnsville MN) | Burnsville | The manufacturing of aeronau | A | 0.1 |
| 2573-MN006 | Minnetonka | Direct Health and Medical In | A | 0.1 |
| USA MN Minneapolis VAST Center & Headquarters | Minneapolis | CORPORATE, SUBSIDIARY, AND R | A | 0.1 |
| PHS - PHS Management | Roseville | - | A | 0.1 |
| ISD 742 St Cloud District Admin | St Cloud | Academies, elementary or sec | A | 0.1 |
| State of Minnesota | Saint Paul | Taxation departments | A | 0.1 |
| Norstan Communications Inc - MN.MPLS | Eden Prairie | - | A | 0.1 |
| Boston Scientific Minnetonka | Minnetonka | Catheters manufacturing | A | 0.1 |
| Carlson Drake House | Bloomington | Alcoholism rehabilitation fa | A | 0.1 |
| 2573-MN008 | Minnetonka | Direct Health and Medical In | A | 0.1 |
| CN St. Paul | Little Canada | Medical Device Manufacturer | A | 0.1 |
| General Mills (Corporate) | Golden Valley | Corporate offices | A | 0.1 |
| MN Office | Mendota Heights | Curtain Wall Site Installati | A | 0.1 |
| Minnesota Department of Human Services, Central Office, Andersen, DC1 & Golden Rule | Saint Paul | Community social service pro | A | 0.1 |
| Human Resources | Minneapolis | General Government | A | 0.1 |
| Commercial SE Field Employees | Minnetonka | Corporate offices | A | 0.1 |
| South Central College - Faribault Campus | Faribault | Academies, college or univer | A | 0.1 |
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).
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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.