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 20 of 31| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HCR Inc | Lewistown | Airlocks, fabricated metal p | D | 4.0 |
| Mission Valley Power | Pablo | Utility line (i.e., communic | D | 4.0 |
| Dynojet Research MT | Belgrade | Fuel system instruments, air | D | 4.0 |
| Abs-0030-0030-04023 Fac-04023-Glendive-Mt | Glendive | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 4.0 |
| Shopko Hometown #774 (Livingston, MT) | Livingston | Department Stores | C | 4.0 |
| Diamond B Oilfield Trucking Inc. (Corporate - MT) | Plentywood | Oilfield Materials Transport | C | 4.0 |
| Century Companies LWT | Lewistown | Highway construction | D | 3.9 |
| DKB, Inc. Montana Branch | Billings | Boiler and pipe insulation i | D | 3.9 |
| 71420 | Bozeman | Department Stores | C | 3.9 |
| Great Falls MT Yard | Great Falls | Other Building Material Deal | C | 3.9 |
| Kalispell Regional Medical Center | Kalispell | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 3.9 |
| Harlow's School Bus Service of Montana - Stevensville | Stevensville | School bus services | C | 3.9 |
| Trinity Hospital | Wolf Point | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 3.9 |
| Hoffman's R&M Services | Butte | Excavation contractors | D | 3.9 |
| Heorot Power Management - Hardin | Hardin | Electric power generation, f | F | 3.9 |
| Central Plumbing, Heating & Excavation | Great Falls | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | D | 3.9 |
| Supply Chain : Montana Precision Products | Butte | - | C | 3.9 |
| CENTENNIAL_1357428 | Billings | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.9 |
| MISSOULA_1373399 | Missoula | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.9 |
| 290772-Billings P&Dc | Billings | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.8 |
| 4054-Abs 0030 0035 | Great Falls | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.8 |
| 11449 Billings | Billings | Bus operation, school and em | C | 3.8 |
| HA - Helena | Helena | Grocery stores | C | 3.8 |
| Delta Air Lines - BZN | Belgrade | Scheduled Air Transportation | C | 3.8 |
| Re Investment Co LLC - Kalispell | Kalispell | General rental centers | F | 3.8 |
| Parkview Healthcare Community | Billings | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 3.8 |
| Red Oxx Inc. (N. 13th) | Billings | Nylon Bag Manufacturer | D | 3.8 |
| Pionneer Medical Center | Big Timber | General medical and surgical | B | 3.8 |
| MT001 - MT-Missoula-Field Office | Missoula | - | C | 3.8 |
| Big Sky Build, Inc. | Big Sky | Residential construction, si | C | 3.8 |
| Hydrometrics, Inc. | Helena | Environmental remediation se | D | 3.8 |
| Abs-0030-0030-00039 Fac-00039-Miles City-Mt | Miles City | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.8 |
| Shopko Store #75 (Missoula, MT) | Missoula | Department Stores | C | 3.8 |
| 3771 | Missoula | Automotive Parts and Accesso | C | 3.7 |
| Livingston Healthcare | Livingston | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.7 |
| Unit # 2241 | Kalispell | Retail | C | 3.7 |
| 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00832 | Harlem | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.7 |
| Sw-20730038-Cs Hln - Helena, Mt | Helena | Transportation Air Carriers | C | 3.7 |
| Republic services of Billing 4892 | Billing | Garbage collection services | D | 3.7 |
| United Blood Services-Billings | Billings | Blood banking | C | 3.7 |
| Diamond Construction Inc | Helena | Commercial building construc | D | 3.7 |
| Williams Plumbing and Heating Missoula | Missoula | Bathroom plumbing fixture an | D | 3.7 |
| Transystems LLC - Billings Project | Billings | Agricultural products trucki | C | 3.7 |
| BILLINGS_1354967 | Billings | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 3.7 |
| Jim Gilman Excavating, Inc. | Butte | Surfacing, highway, road, st | D | 3.7 |
| Lucky's Market, Missoula | Missoula | Grocery stores | C | 3.7 |
| Barrett Hospital & HealthCare | Dillon | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.7 |
| Swy-0030-0031-01486 Fac-01486-Helena-Mt | Helena | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.6 |
| Mountain View Co-op Lincoln Retail | Black Eagle | Gasoline stations with conve | C | 3.6 |
| Northern Montana Hospital | Havre | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.6 |
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.