TCR, interpreted
Far above average
7.1 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
Montana workplace safety
How 1,536 OSHA-reporting employers across Montana compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,413 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 1,536
- Employers
- 7.1
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 24,785
- Injuries (all)
- 17
- Fatalities (all)
Montana 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)
1,536 48th of 54 higher than 6 of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
Montana's 1,413 rated reporting employers average 7.1 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.6 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 7.1
- avg TCR · rated subset
- 1,413
- rated employers
- 1,536
- all reporting employers
- 24,785
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 1,536 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 10% B · 10% C · 22% D · 20% F · 38%
38% of Montana's reporting establishments earn an F and 10% 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 Montana ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRMontana's average TCR of 7.1 is lower than 4% 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, Montana is #52 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 1,413-employer subset), it's #13 of 54, a 39-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 Montana Workplaces Compare
Montana hosts 1,536 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 Montana cohort, workers have logged 24,785 recordable injuries. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,413 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 17 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 Montana, 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 Montana, by injury rate
Page 16 of 31| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anaconda Foundry Fabrication Co. Inc | Anaconda | Plate work (e.g., bending, c | D | 5.4 |
| Runnings of Baker | Baker | General stores | D | 5.4 |
| Glendive | Glendive | General merchandise, durable | F | 5.4 |
| Glacier Park Lodge | East Glacier | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.4 |
| 6400-Swy 0031 2106 | Whitefish | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.4 |
| Butte Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites | Butte | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.3 |
| Sodexo at Montana Tech Resident Dining | Butte | Food Service Contractors | D | 5.3 |
| 4054-Abs 0030 0038 | Billings | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| Nelcon Inc. | Kalispell | Road construction | D | 5.3 |
| Swy-0030-0031-01646 Fac-01646-Polson-Mt | Polson | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| Wm 2259 | Kalispell | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.3 |
| BLG-ODFL | Billings | General Freight Trucking, lo | C | 5.3 |
| 299144-Whitefish Po | Whitefish | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.3 |
| The Arrow | Bozeman | Residential Property Manager | F | 5.3 |
| 590 | Billings | Couriers and express deliver | C | 5.3 |
| CROSSROADS | Shelby | - | D | 5.3 |
| Sun Mountain Logging | Deer Lodge | Logging | C | 5.3 |
| 7479 | Billings | - | D | 5.3 |
| Abs-0030-0030-00009 Fac-00009-Belgrade-Mt | Belgrade | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.3 |
| Big Lots Store #1923 Billings, MT | Billings | Retail Other | D | 5.2 |
| Bighorn Valley Health Center | Hardin | Biofeedback centers and clin | D | 5.2 |
| Missoula Electric Coop | Missoula | Distribution of electric pow | F | 5.2 |
| Big-D Dovetail | Bozeman | Cabin construction general c | D | 5.2 |
| Allied Steel | Lewistown | Fabricated structural metal | D | 5.2 |
| 293633-Great Falls P&Df | Great Falls | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 5.2 |
| Belgrade, MT | Belgrade | Electric power generation, t | F | 5.2 |
| 6400-Swy 0031 1646 | Polson | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.2 |
| Billings, MT-BioLife | Billings | Plasmapheresis Center | D | 5.2 |
| Corporate | Billings | Bentonite mining and/or bene | F | 5.2 |
| Billings Surgery Center | Billings | Ambulatory surgical centers | D | 5.2 |
| DGS Aviation Services : MSO - Missoula | Missoula | Support Activities for Air T | C | 5.2 |
| 4054-000000630 | Billings | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.1 |
| Mt191 St Joseph Medical Ctr Polso-Polson Hr | Polson | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.1 |
| 2M Company Inc. - Billings | Billings | General merchandise, durable | F | 5.1 |
| St. Johns United - Billings Gainan's Commons | Billings | Home health agencies | C | 5.1 |
| 4054-Abs 0030 0006 | Bozeman | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.1 |
| American Red Cross - 1300 28th St S | Great Falls | - | D | 5.1 |
| Northern Montana Care Center | Havre | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 5.1 |
| 7302 Missoula Truss | Missoula | Lumber/Plywood/Millwork/Wood | F | 5.1 |
| Bozeman | Bozeman | General merchandise, durable | F | 5.1 |
| Montana Sulphur & Chemical Co | Billings | Sulfur and sulfur compounds, | D | 5.1 |
| Abs-0030-0030-01227 Fac-01227-Billings-Mt | Billings | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.1 |
| Billings Terminal | Billings | - | C | 5.1 |
| Transystems LLC - Summer Construction Hauling Project | Great Falls | Agricultural products trucki | C | 5.1 |
| 3575 | Billings | Chemical gases merchant whol | F | 5.1 |
| F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Company | Columbia Falls | Boards, wood, made from logs | D | 5.0 |
| Laurel SNF Operations, LLC | Laurel | Nursing homes | B | 5.0 |
| Montana Dakota Utilities - Billings, MT | Billings | Gas, mixed natural and manuf | F | 5.0 |
| NEMT Stat Air Coop | Glasgow | Air ambulance services | D | 5.0 |
| 4054-Abs 0030 0039 | Miles City | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 5.0 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for Montana: 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 (7.1 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (1,536 here).
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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.