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 77 of 316| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winona Senior High School | Winona | Academies, elementary or sec | F | 7.3 |
| Mounds View, MN-Biolife 874 | Mounds View | Plasmapheresis Center | D | 7.3 |
| 264410-Hibbing Po | Hibbing | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.3 |
| Anoka Semi-Independent Living Services and Day Training and Habilitation | Coon Rapids | - | D | 7.3 |
| DFNC - WOOD - Woodbury (Dean) | Woodbury | FLUID MILK MANUFACTURING | F | 7.3 |
| Central Specialties | Alexandria | Road construction | F | 7.3 |
| Navy Island, Inc. | West St Paul | Hardwood veneer or plywood m | F | 7.3 |
| City of Rosemount | Rosemount | City and town councils | F | 7.3 |
| 8918_20462 | Ramsey | - | D | 7.3 |
| Wholesale Produce Supply | Minneapolis | Produce, fresh, merchant who | F | 7.3 |
| Military Affairs --- State Active Duty (SAD) | Saint Paul | National Guard | F | 7.3 |
| Newfolden Independent School District 441 | Newfolden | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 7.3 |
| 266317-Min-Fridley Carrier Anx | Minneapolis | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.3 |
| K&M Tire Minneapolis | Coon Rapids | Motor vehicle tire and tube | F | 7.3 |
| Crs St Paul | Minneapolis | - | F | 7.3 |
| Perkins Red Wing | Red Wing | Family restaurants, full ser | F | 7.3 |
| Minneapolis, Mn #00137 | Minneapolis | Retail Hardware Stores | F | 7.3 |
| Gavilon Grain - Red Rock (St Paul, MN) | St. Paul | Grain elevators merchant who | F | 7.3 |
| 4186-03715 | Willmar | All Other General Merchandis | F | 7.3 |
| 2367 | Pine City | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.3 |
| 4021-A629 | Fridley | Uniform Services | F | 7.3 |
| High School | Lewiston | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 7.3 |
| Engel Haus | Albertville | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.3 |
| 06735s Drugstore | Saint Anthony | Pharmacies and drug stores | F | 7.3 |
| Lantz Masonry & Concrete,LLC | Cambridge | Retaining wall, masonry (i.e | F | 7.3 |
| St. Michael-Albertville Community Education Center | Saint Michael | Elementary and secondary sch | F | 7.3 |
| Centennial House | Apple Valley | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.3 |
| 1530 Lkq | Northfield | Motor vehicle parts, used, m | F | 7.3 |
| Farmward - Renville | Renville | Grain elevators merchant who | F | 7.3 |
| Lunds - White Bear Lake | White Bear Lake | Supermarkets | F | 7.3 |
| 2817 Duluth Mn | Duluth | Home Centers | F | 7.3 |
| 743 - Baxter | Baxter | - | F | 7.3 |
| 2807-2313 | West St Paul | Homecenter | F | 7.3 |
| 1st street building | Duluth | Family physicians' offices ( | D | 7.3 |
| 268349-Stp-Riverview Sta | Saint Paul | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 7.3 |
| Range Center, Inc. | Chisholm | Group homes, intellectual an | D | 7.3 |
| Shopko Store #61 (St Cloud, MN (East)) | St Cloud | Department Stores | F | 7.3 |
| Duluth (Mndul) | Duluth | Courier Services Except by A | C | 7.3 |
| St. Charles High School | St. Charles | K-12 Education | F | 7.3 |
| Mills Ford Chrysler | Willmar | Automobile dealers, new only | F | 7.3 |
| Dellwood Gardens | Saint Paul | Assisted Living | D | 7.3 |
| Voyager Industries, Inc.- Pine River | Pine River | Travel trailers, recreationa | F | 7.3 |
| First Student Wayzata | Plymouth | School bus services | D | 7.3 |
| 1999 | Andover | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | F | 7.3 |
| NTE Engineering + Manufacturing | Faribault | Fabricated structural metal | F | 7.3 |
| Brookdale Eden Prairie | Eden Prairie | Assisted-living facilities w | D | 7.3 |
| Double J Concrete and Masonry, Inc. | New London | Foundation, building, poured | F | 7.3 |
| Proctor Clinic | Proctor | Family physicians' offices ( | D | 7.3 |
| The Estates at Bloomington | Bloomington | Nursing Home | C | 7.3 |
| Carrs Tree Service - Freeport | Freeport | Tree and brush trimming, ove | D | 7.3 |
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.