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 71 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Opportunity - Day Training & Habilitation | Eden Prairie | - | F | 7.7 |
| Holden Farms, Inc. | Northfield | Pig farming | D | 7.7 |
| Rihm Kenworth 105 Coon Rapids | Coon Rapids | Truck tractors, road, mercha | F | 7.7 |
| Starbuck Office and Agronomy | Starbuck | Farm Supplies Merchant Whole | F | 7.7 |
| Willmar Mn - 3193 | Willmar | Home Centers | F | 7.7 |
| ISD #707 Nett Lake | Nett Lake | K-12 Education | F | 7.7 |
| 2892_5597 | Blue Earth | - | C | 7.7 |
| Wm 1696 | Fergus Falls | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.7 |
| 268280-Saint Cloud Po | Saint Cloud | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.7 |
| Homewood Suites New Brighton | New Brighton | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 7.7 |
| 1970-10003158 | Apple Valley | Full-Services Restaurants | F | 7.7 |
| City of New York Mills | New York Mills | City and town managers' offi | F | 7.7 |
| Park Industries Inc - 6301 Building | St. Cloud | Stone working machinery manu | F | 7.7 |
| Riedell Shoes Inc | Red Wing | Manufacturer of Ice and Roll | F | 7.7 |
| 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0478 | Rochester | - | F | 7.7 |
| Cost Plus World Market ROSEDALE 6361 | North Rosedale | - | F | 7.7 |
| 1202 Coon Rapids | Coon Rapids | Retail | F | 7.7 |
| 4186-04805 | Fairmont | All Other General Merchandis | F | 7.7 |
| LAKEVILLE_1369703 | Lakeville | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.7 |
| Mille Lacs Health System Hospital | Onamia | Hospitals, general medical a | C | 7.7 |
| Novel Energy Solutions L.L.C. | Saint Paul | Electric power generation, s | F | 7.7 |
| D&D Beverage | Brainerd | Alcoholic beverages, wine an | F | 7.7 |
| Great Plains Millwork Inc | Oakdale | Building materials supply de | F | 7.7 |
| 09350s Drugstore | Fairmont | Pharmacies and drug stores | F | 7.7 |
| Metro Transit Green Line LRT OMF | St Paul | Mixed mode transit systems ( | D | 7.7 |
| 11397 Minnetonka | Tonka Bay | School bus services | D | 7.7 |
| Three Rivers Park District | Plymouth | Nature parks | F | 7.7 |
| Fairfield Inn & Suites Minneapolis Burnsville | Burnsville | Hotels | F | 7.7 |
| 4192-00051155-58 | Monticello | Plumbing and Heating Equipme | F | 7.7 |
| Frattallone's Ace Hardware-Grand Avenue | St. Paul | Hardware stores | F | 7.7 |
| Rum Rv So | Cambridge | K-12 Education | F | 7.7 |
| Carris Health Redwood Area Hospital | Redwood | General medical and surgical | C | 7.7 |
| Oak Terrace Assisted Living of North Mankato | North Mankato | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 7.7 |
| Bayport Fire Department | Bayport | Fire departments (e.g., gove | F | 7.7 |
| EDCO Products, Inc. | Hopkins | Siding, sheet metal (except | F | 7.7 |
| 2690 Far106 | Minneapolis | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.7 |
| 2095 Far9 | Eden Prairie | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 7.7 |
| Deer River Clinic | Deer River | Family physicians' offices ( | F | 7.7 |
| MN,Worthington-Medical Center-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals | Worthington | General medical and surgical | C | 7.7 |
| PHS - Lake Minnetonka Shores | Spring Park | - | C | 7.7 |
| Thompson Tool and Die Inc | Cambridge | Presses (e.g., bending, punc | F | 7.6 |
| Eveland's Inc. | Backus | Trailers, camping, manufactu | F | 7.6 |
| Bed Bath and Beyond Woodbury | Woodbury | retailing new home furnishin | F | 7.6 |
| Bachman's Plymouth | Plymouth | Nursery and garden centers w | F | 7.6 |
| Tri-CAP - 1210 Building | Waite Park | Community action service age | F | 7.6 |
| Progressive Building Systems | St Michael | Commercial building construc | F | 7.6 |
| 4186-05330 | Bloomington | All Other General Merchandis | F | 7.6 |
| Joseph Companies (IQHC) 3261 19th St NW | Rochester | Home health agencies | D | 7.6 |
| Prairie Senior Cottages LLC Albert Lea | Albert Lea | Assisted Living | F | 7.6 |
| Law Enforcement Center | Red Wing | Sheriffs' offices (except co | F | 7.6 |
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.