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 27 of 31| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glacier Park Base Camp | Columbia Falls | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.3 |
| Envirocon, Inc. | Missoula | Concrete breaking and cuttin | A | 1.3 |
| Missoula Service Center | Missoula | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.3 |
| Laurel Refinery | Laurel | Petroleum Refineries | A | 1.3 |
| FXSolutions | Missoula | Housing, single-family, cons | A | 1.2 |
| Billings - BMD | Billings | Lumber Plywood Millwork and | B | 1.2 |
| 2252-00000996 | Great Falls | General Medical and Surgical | A | 1.2 |
| Guy Tabacco Construction | Black Eagle | Commercial building construc | A | 1.2 |
| Ross store 729 | Kalispell | Retail Store | A | 1.2 |
| Holy Rosary Healthcare | Miles City | General medical and surgical | A | 1.2 |
| Casino Creek Concrete, Inc. | Lewistown | Construction sand and gravel | B | 1.2 |
| Aligned Medical | Billings | Surgical supplies (except me | A | 1.2 |
| NAPA Billings Main Store | Billings | Automotive parts and supply | A | 1.2 |
| Rimrock Foundation - Main Facility | Billings | Substance abuse facilities, | A | 1.2 |
| Third Element | Helena | Low voltage electrical work | A | 1.1 |
| MTK01, Applied Materials, Semi Tool Main | Kalispell | Etching equipment, semicondu | A | 1.1 |
| Western Montana Mental Health Center | Missoula | Individual and family social | A | 1.1 |
| Castlerock Excavating, Inc. | Billings | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | A | 1.1 |
| Billings MT Yard | Billings | Other Building Material Deal | A | 1.1 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC - WMT1 | Missoula | Couriers and Express Deliver | A | 1.1 |
| Base Metals Refinery | Columbus | Platinum refining, primary | A | 1.1 |
| Michels Pipeline Inc-MT-Missoula | Missoula | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 1.1 |
| 4054-000000015 | Wolf Point | Supermarkets and Other Groce | A | 1.1 |
| Kelly Inn West Yellowstone | West Yellowstone | Hotels (except casino hotels | A | 1.1 |
| JM Services Crane & Rigging, LLC. | Billings, Mt | Crane rental with operator | A | 1.1 |
| Missoula MT Truss | Missoula | Engineered Wood Member Manuf | A | 1.1 |
| Home Office | Bozeman | Retail | A | 1.1 |
| Alamon Inc | Kalispell | Telecommunication | A | 1.1 |
| Huron Operations Center | Huron | Distribution of electric pow | C | 1.1 |
| Elkhorn Construction, MONDAK Service Area | Sidney | Compressor, metering and pum | A | 1.1 |
| S&K Engineering and Research, LLC | St. Ignatius | Aircraft maintenance and rep | A | 1.0 |
| COP Construction LLC | Billings | Utility line (i.e., sewer, w | A | 1.0 |
| Colstrip Power Plant | Colstrip | Electric power generation, f | C | 1.0 |
| BUT-ODFL | Butte | General Freight Trucking, lo | A | 1.0 |
| Unifi Aviation Services : FCA - Kalispell, MT | Kalispell | Support Activities for Air T | A | 1.0 |
| GPI - Admin - Columbia Falls | Columbia Falls | Hotels, resort, without casi | A | 1.0 |
| Teledyne FLIR Surveillance, Inc. (Bozeman MT) | Bozeman | Crystals and crystal assembl | A | 1.0 |
| Lewis Group Home | Billings | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 1.0 |
| TW Enterprises | Billings | Electrical generating and tr | A | 1.0 |
| Billings Peterbilt, Inc | Billings | Automobile merchant wholesal | A | 1.0 |
| Awe Kualawaache Care Center | Crow Agency | Health professionals' associ | A | 1.0 |
| GlaxoSmithKline | Hamilton | Pharmaceutical preparations | A | 1.0 |
| Billings Clinic Miles City | Miles City | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | A | 1.0 |
| Americas Resins and Global FM : Missoula | Missoula | All Other Basic Organic Chem | A | 1.0 |
| Rocky Mountain Professional Bldg | Billings | Medical office management se | A | 0.9 |
| Continental Resources - Baker, MT | Baker | Petroleum, crude, production | A | 0.9 |
| Big Lots Store #4592 Great Falls, MT | Great Falls | Retail Other | A | 0.9 |
| 2073-SW-20730012-CS | Butte | Transportation Air Carriers | A | 0.9 |
| Residence Inn Missoula | Missoula | Hotel management services (i | A | 0.9 |
| Helena Service Center | Helena | Distribution of electric pow | B | 0.9 |
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.