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 26 of 31| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maviro Inc - Billings | Billings | Industrial Services | B | 1.8 |
| Missoula Progressive | Missoula | Roofing contractors | B | 1.8 |
| Alternatives, Inc. | Billings | Halfway houses, substance ab | A | 1.7 |
| Sletten Construction Company | Great Falls | Commercial building construc | B | 1.7 |
| USA MT Helena | Helena | Plumbing and heating contrac | B | 1.7 |
| Torgerson's-Lewistown | Lewistown | Distribution of specialized | B | 1.7 |
| Shopko Store #112 (Helena, MT) | Helena | Department Stores | B | 1.7 |
| Helena Sand & Gravel | Helena | Central-mixed concrete manuf | B | 1.7 |
| Sodexo at Helena School S.D. | Helena | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.7 |
| L & J Construction Group, LLC | Ennis | Repair, highway, road, stree | B | 1.7 |
| 4054-Abs 0030 0024 | Missoula | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.7 |
| Malteurop Great Falls | Great Falls | Barley, malt, manufacturing | B | 1.7 |
| Ashley Pacific North West - Montana | Missoula | Distribution Retail | A | 1.7 |
| Ross store 750 | Helena | Retail Store | A | 1.7 |
| 4054-Abs 0030 4023 | Glendive | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.7 |
| The Crossings - St. Johns United Laurel Campus | Laurel | Continuing care retirement c | A | 1.7 |
| JTL Group Inc. DBA Knife River-Missoula | Missoula, Mt | Construction management, hig | B | 1.6 |
| 4054-000004023 | Glendive | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.6 |
| Jet Aviation Bozeman | Belgrade | Fixed base operators | A | 1.6 |
| CHS Laurel Refinery | Laurel | Crude petroleum refineries | A | 1.6 |
| Shopko Hometown #773 (Lewistown, MT) | Lewistown | Department Stores | A | 1.6 |
| Modern Machinery - Billings | Billings | Heavy machinery and equipmen | B | 1.6 |
| Nwestco LLC | Kalispell | Construction machinery and e | B | 1.6 |
| Dixon Bros Inc,. | Billings | Trucking, general freight, l | A | 1.6 |
| Fallon Medical Complex, Inc | Baker | General medical and surgical | A | 1.6 |
| Kimber Mfg., Inc. MT | Kalispell | Firearms, small, manufacturi | A | 1.6 |
| Unit # 1981 | Missoula | Retail | A | 1.6 |
| CENTRAL PLUMBING & HEATING, INC. - Belgrade Mechanical Division | Belgrade | Plumbing and heating contrac | B | 1.6 |
| Sodexo at Wells Fargo Billings | Billings | Food Service Contractors | B | 1.6 |
| Billings Clinic West | Billings | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | A | 1.5 |
| WBI Energy Corrosion Services Billings Operations | Billings | Cathodic protection, install | B | 1.5 |
| S&K Support Services, LLC | St. Ignatius | Maintenance and repair servi | A | 1.5 |
| Havre | Havre | Distribution of electric pow | D | 1.5 |
| Treasure State Inc. | Belgrade | Concrete paving (i.e., highw | B | 1.5 |
| Calumet Montana Refining | Great Falls | Crude oil refining | A | 1.5 |
| GRG Enterprises, LLC | Whitefish | Corporate offices | F | 1.5 |
| Mid-Rivers Communications | Glendive | Internet service providers, | F | 1.5 |
| 49381c - Billings Bin | Billings | Confectionery Merchant Whole | B | 1.5 |
| Montana Fence Bozeman Branch | Kalispell | Chain link fence installatio | B | 1.4 |
| North 40 Outfitters #5 | Great Falls | Bonded warehousing, general | A | 1.4 |
| Rocky Mountain Crude Oil LLC | Billings | Tanker trucking (e.g., chemi | A | 1.4 |
| US127: Helena 483 - SG | Helena | Fire sprinkler system instal | B | 1.4 |
| Dick Anderson Construction | Helena | Addition, alteration and ren | A | 1.4 |
| Sidney | Sidney | Farm machinery and equipment | B | 1.4 |
| Montana Instruments | Bozeman | Physical properties testing | A | 1.4 |
| Vemco, Inc. | Bozeman | Heating boilers, steam and h | B | 1.4 |
| MKS Bozeman | Bozeman | - | A | 1.4 |
| Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital | Bozeman | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 1.4 |
| City of Chinook | Chinook | City and town councils | A | 1.3 |
| Columbia Falls | Columbia Falls | Retail | A | 1.3 |
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.