State profile · OSHA ITA
Minnesota workplace safety
How 15,828 OSHA-reporting employers across Minnesota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 15,828
- Employers
- 5.7
- Avg TCR
- 259,594
- Injuries
- 141
- Fatalities
The state picture
Minnesota's 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 · per 100 workers
- 15,828
- employers reporting
- 259,594
- recordable injuries
- 141
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Minnesota is #40 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, 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 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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.7 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 70 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TEAM Industries, Inc. | Audubon | Reducers, speed, manufacturi | F | 7.8 |
| Bondhus Corporation | Monticello | Tools, handheld, nonpowered | F | 7.8 |
| Maplewood City Hall | Maplewood | Executive offices, federal, | F | 7.8 |
| 268080-Rosemount Po | Rosemount | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.8 |
| 6510 | Mankato | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.8 |
| 269685-Wells Po | Wells | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.8 |
| Gillette Pepsi - Rochester | Rochester | Beverage bases merchant whol | F | 7.8 |
| Augustana Chapel View | Hopkins | Home care of elderly, medica | D | 7.8 |
| K Johnson Construction, Inc. | Sauk Rapids | Masonry contractors | F | 7.7 |
| Buffalo Lake Healthcare Center | Buffalo Lake | Skilled Nursing Facility | C | 7.7 |
| New York Mills Public School | New York Mills | K-12 Education | F | 7.7 |
| MDI-HIB | Hibbing | Pails, plastics, manufacturi | F | 7.7 |
| Whole Foods Co-op Denfeld | Duluth | Grocery stores | F | 7.7 |
| Clean Response, Inc | Eagan | Site remediation services | F | 7.7 |
| Hilltop Lumber Ottertail | Ottertail | Home improvement centers | F | 7.7 |
| HealthEast -Woodwinds Hospital | Woodbury | - | C | 7.7 |
| Mndet - Detroit Lakes | Detroit Lakes | Couriers and Express Deliver | C | 7.7 |
| Wealshire of Medina | Medina | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 7.7 |
| Sir Lines A-Lot | Edina | Road construction | F | 7.7 |
| New Flyer of America Inc | Crookston | Assembly plants, heavy truck | F | 7.7 |
| 4186-05600 | Sauk Rapids | All Other General Merchandis | F | 7.7 |
| 4535-1380 | Blaine | Retail/Home Furnishings | F | 7.7 |
| Pipestone Repairs and Maintenance | Pipestone | Pig farming | D | 7.7 |
| Hazel Sunflower Plant | Hazel | Roasted Nuts and Peanut Butt | D | 7.7 |
| Chandler Feed Company | Chandler | Animal feed mills (except do | D | 7.7 |
| 151031 | South St Paul | Landscaping Services | D | 7.7 |
| Molin Concrete Products Inc | Lino Lakes | Precast concrete block and b | F | 7.7 |
| North Star Elementary | Eveleth | K-12 Education | F | 7.7 |
| Farmers Cooperative Grain and Seed Association | Thief River Falls | Seeds (e.g., field, flower, | F | 7.7 |
| ACS Fab LLC | Newport | Displays (e.g., counter, flo | F | 7.7 |
| Edinbrook Elementary | Brooklyn Park | School districts, elementary | F | 7.7 |
| SilverCrest Properties LLC Summit Place | Eden Prairie | Convalescent homes or conval | C | 7.7 |
| Sauk Rapids Store | Sauk Rapids | Farm machinery and equipment | F | 7.7 |
| Fergus Falls Workforce Center | Fergus Falls | Rehabilitation job counselin | F | 7.7 |
| Nasseff Mechanical Contractors, Inc | St. Paul | Mechanical contractors | F | 7.7 |
| 0220 - Eden Prairie | Eden Prairie | Discount Department Stores | F | 7.7 |
| Festival Foods Brooklyn Park | Brooklyn Park | Grocery stores | F | 7.7 |
| Red Wing Shoe Co. - SBF Upper | Red Wing | Tanning, currying, finishing | F | 7.7 |
| 3089 Central Region-Bloomington | Bloomington | School and Employee Bus Tran | D | 7.7 |
| Bomgaars Supply,Inc. - Waseca | Waseca | - | F | 7.7 |
| Store #1234 - Penn & 79th | Bloomington | - | F | 7.7 |
| HG364 | Roseville | Homefurnishings stores | F | 7.7 |
| 4186-04836 | Vadnais Heights | All Other General Merchandis | F | 7.7 |
| Freeway Auto Center LLC | Duluth | Automobile dealers, new only | F | 7.7 |
| Scoular St. Hilaire | St. Hilaire | Grain elevators merchant who | F | 7.7 |
| Dakota Growers Pasta Co. MN | New Hope | Dry pasta manufacturing | F | 7.7 |
| ELC - Montevideo | Montevideo | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 7.7 |
| One Way Wireless Construction | Shakopee | Radio transmitting tower con | F | 7.7 |
| Willow Lane Early Childhood | Brooklyn Center | School districts, elementary | F | 7.7 |
| Ambulatory Surgery Center | Lake Elmo | Freestanding ambulatory surg | F | 7.7 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Minnesota's safety record means for you
Minnesota averages a TCR of 5.7 - about 2.1× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
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.