TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.7 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
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).
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
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.
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.
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.
Minnesota's average TCR of 5.7 is lower than 26% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
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.
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.
| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mngun - Gunn (Grand Rapids) | Grand Rapids | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 8.9 |
| South Terrace Elementary | Carlton | K-12 Education | F | 8.9 |
| Crest View Elementary | Brooklyn Park | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 8.9 |
| Cannon Falls Store | Cannon Falls | Farm machinery and equipment | F | 8.9 |
| Toll Company | Plymouth | Welding machinery and equipm | F | 8.9 |
| 262830-Elk River Po | Elk River | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 8.9 |
| Autumn Glen Senior Living | Coon Rapids | Skilled Nursing Care Facilit | D | 8.9 |
| New Horizon Academy #31 | St. Louis Park | Child day care centers | F | 8.9 |
| 1459-0751 | Minneapolis | Elementary and Secondary Sch | F | 8.9 |
| Millwood, Inc. New Hope | New Hope | Pallet parts, wood, manufact | F | 8.9 |
| The Common Good Cleaning Company, LLC | Minneapolis | Building cleaning services, | D | 8.9 |
| Transportation | Grand Rapids | K-12 Education | F | 8.9 |
| Granada Huntley East Chain ISD 2536 | Granada | Academies, elementary or sec | F | 8.9 |
| Grand Arbor | Alexandria | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 8.9 |
| Arc Twin Cities Brooklyn Center | Brooklyn Center | Self-help organizations (exc | F | 8.9 |
| DFNC - TRF - Thief River Falls - DTI | Thief River Falls | DAIRY DISTRIBUTION | F | 8.9 |
| Tennis Sanitation LLC | St. Paul Park | Garbage collection services | F | 8.9 |
| Crysteel Mfg Inc. (Truck Bodies & Equipment International, Lake Crystal | Lake Crystal | Dump-truck lifting mechanism | F | 8.9 |
| Wanamingo Energy | Wanamingo | Farm Supply | D | 8.9 |
| Support Service Building | Duluth | Administrative management se | F | 8.9 |
| Aitkin Health Services | Aitkin | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 8.9 |
| SilverCrest Properties LLC Kingsley Shores Sr | Lakeville | Convalescent homes or conval | D | 8.9 |
| Wastewater Treatment Facility | Hutchinson | Sewage treatment plants or f | F | 8.9 |
| ADESA Minneapolis | Dayton | Motor vehicle merchant whole | F | 8.9 |
| 268341-Stp-Industrial Sta | St Paul | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 8.9 |
| Luther Place Campus | Albert Lea | Homes for the aged with nurs | D | 8.9 |
| Electric Machinery Company LLC | Minneapolis | Exciter assemblies, motor an | F | 8.9 |
| Stenerson Bros Lumber Co. | Moorhead | Home centers, building mater | F | 8.9 |
| Great Lakes Management GTHI Global Pointe Senior Living | Golden Valley | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 8.9 |
| Eagan 3304 | Eagan | Auto body repair and refinis | F | 8.9 |
| Precise Refrigeration, Heating, & Air Conditioning, Inc | St. Joseph | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | F | 8.9 |
| Crenlo Engineered Cabs - Plant 1 | Rochester | Land preparation machinery, | F | 8.9 |
| 2313 - Edina | Edina | Discount Department Stores | F | 8.9 |
| 268282-Stc-Sauk Rapids Br | Sauk Rapids | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 8.9 |
| EPPA Woodbury Urgency Room | Woodbury | Physicians' (except mental h | F | 8.9 |
| 7580 Commerce Lane NE, Fridley, MN 55432 | Fridley | Construction management, pow | F | 8.8 |
| Chemstar Products Company | Carlton | Wet milling corn and other v | F | 8.8 |
| North Metro Saw Inc. | Cambridge | Structural steel, fabricated | F | 8.8 |
| Climate By Design International | Owatonna | Heating and air conditioning | F | 8.8 |
| Rotochopper | St. Martin | Screening and sifting machin | F | 8.8 |
| Davannis Ind. Edina | Edina | Pizza parlors, limited-servi | F | 8.8 |
| Mngle - Glencoe | Glencoe | Couriers and Express Deliver | D | 8.8 |
| CentraCare Clinic Big Lake | Big Lake | Family physicians' offices ( | F | 8.8 |
| Allina Health Champlin Clinic | Champlin | - | F | 8.8 |
| Hutchinson Branch Office | Hutchinson | Home health care agencies | D | 8.8 |
| McPhillips Bros. Roofing Co | Saint Paul | Low slope roofing installati | F | 8.8 |
| 5089 | Inver Grove Heights | All Other General Merchandis | F | 8.8 |
| Palmer Bus Service of Waseca Inc. | Waseca | School bus services | D | 8.8 |
| 132731 | Eden Praire | Landscaping Services | D | 8.8 |
| 610 Afton Alps | Hastings | Alpine skiing facilities wit | F | 8.8 |
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.
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (5.7 here).
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.
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.