State profile · OSHA ITA
Montana workplace safety
How 1,536 OSHA-reporting employers across Montana compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 1,536
- Employers
- 7.1
- Avg TCR
- 24,785
- Injuries
- 17
- Fatalities
The state picture
Montana's 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 · per 100 workers
- 1,536
- employers reporting
- 24,785
- recordable injuries
- 17
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
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.
A second cut tells a different story: ranked by injury rate alone, Montana is #52 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #16 of 54, a 36-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 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, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 7.1 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
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 21 of 31| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4054-ABS-0030-0030-04022 | Anaconda | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.6 |
| Grain Craft Great Falls MT | Great Falls | Wheat flour manufacturing | C | 3.6 |
| Springmeadows | Bozeman | Assisted-living facilities w | C | 3.6 |
| URUS Production - Billings | Billings | Support activities for anima | B | 3.6 |
| Touchmark - THMT | Helena | Retirement Communities | C | 3.5 |
| Missoula Composites | Missoula | Woodproducts Manufacturing | C | 3.5 |
| 4186-02694 | Butte | Dollar Stores | C | 3.5 |
| NAPA Billings DC | Billings | Automotive parts and supply | C | 3.5 |
| Summit Medical Fitness Center | Kalispell | Physical fitness centers | C | 3.5 |
| Lithia Toyota of Missoula II | Missoula | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.5 |
| Helena HA | Helena | Grocery stores | C | 3.5 |
| 4054-Abs 0030 0042 | Livingston | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.5 |
| Sidney Field Office | Sidney | Petroleum, crude, production | D | 3.5 |
| Havre Sand & Gravel, Inc. | Havre | Pavement, highway, road, str | D | 3.5 |
| 2288-0893 | Great Falls | Structural Pest Control | B | 3.5 |
| Unit #1935 | Bozeman | Retail | C | 3.5 |
| Livingston SNF Operations, LLC | Livingston | Nursing homes | B | 3.5 |
| Kendall Ford - Bozeman | Bozeman | Automobile dealers, new only | C | 3.4 |
| St. Regis | St. Regis | Sawmills | C | 3.4 |
| Wood Products | Missoula | Pallet parts, wood, manufact | C | 3.4 |
| Mtcut - Cutbank | Cutbank | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 3.4 |
| Torgerson's - Havre | Havre | Merchant Wholesale Distribut | D | 3.4 |
| 4186-02880 | Helena | Dollar Stores | C | 3.4 |
| Miles City Clinic | Miles City | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | C | 3.4 |
| Lattice Materials | Bozeman | Photonic integrated circuits | C | 3.4 |
| 6400-SWY-0030-0031-03269 | Hamilton | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.4 |
| REC Silicon | Silver Bow | Nonferrous metals (except al | C | 3.4 |
| Abs-0030-0030-00614 Fac-00614-Shelby-Mt | Shelby | Supermarkets and Other Groce | C | 3.4 |
| Bozeman OB/GYN Clinic | Bozeman | Obstetricians' offices (e.g. | C | 3.4 |
| US MT Billings Coml 3203 | Billings | Paint stores | C | 3.4 |
| Kalispell MT Yard | Kalispell | Other Building Material Deal | C | 3.4 |
| 4186-02828 | Billings | All Other General Merchandis | C | 3.4 |
| Construction Company | Helena | Commercial building construc | C | 3.4 |
| WBI Energy Corrosion Services | Billings | Cathodic protection, install | C | 3.3 |
| Williams Civil Construction | Bozeman | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | C | 3.3 |
| Discovery Care Centre | Hamitlont | Nursing homes | B | 3.3 |
| Mtlib - Libby | Libby | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 3.3 |
| Montana Board of Crime Control | Helena | State police | C | 3.3 |
| Montana Fence Billings Branch | Kalispell | Fence installation (except e | C | 3.3 |
| East Helena MT Yard | Helena | Other Building Material Deal | C | 3.3 |
| Anaconda | Anaconda | Retail | C | 3.3 |
| 3102 Missoula | Missoula | Home Centers | C | 3.3 |
| Super1foods Whitefish | Whitefish | Grocery stores | C | 3.3 |
| Unit # 1935 | Bozeman | Retail | C | 3.3 |
| Swank Enterprises | Kalispell | Commercial building construc | C | 3.3 |
| 256 TA Missoula | Missoula | Truck stops | C | 3.3 |
| Billings Clinic Broadwater | Townsend | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 3.3 |
| Missoula | Missoula | Industrial equipment and mac | D | 3.3 |
| Helena, MT | Helena | Locating underground utility | D | 3.3 |
| Billings Office | Billings | Distribution of natural gas | F | 3.3 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What Montana's safety record means for you
Montana averages a TCR of 7.1 - about 2.6× 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.