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 28 of 31| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9234-95011110 | Billings | Other Gambling Industries | A | 0.9 |
| BrandSafway Solutions LLC - CHS | Laurel | Specialty Trade Contractor | A | 0.9 |
| Tucker Transportation Inc. | Butte | Bus charter services (except | A | 0.9 |
| Missoula Mt. | Missoula | General freight trucking, lo | A | 0.8 |
| JTL Group Inc. DBA Knife River-Billings | Billings | Road construction | A | 0.8 |
| Torgerson's | Great Falls | Merchant Wholesale Distribut | A | 0.8 |
| JMS Crane & Rigging, LLC. | Billings, Mt | Crane rental with operator | A | 0.8 |
| Teledyne FLIR Defense, Inc. (Bozeman MT) | Bozeman | Crystals and crystal assembl | A | 0.8 |
| Ross store 554 | Billings | Retail Store | A | 0.8 |
| 105212 - Montana Renewables RDR/SAF Construction | Great Falls | Distribution line, gas and o | A | 0.8 |
| Joy Global dba Komatsu Mining | Billings | Heavy machinery and equipmen | A | 0.8 |
| Lithia of Billings II LLC | Billings | Automobile dealers, new only | A | 0.8 |
| Unit #0656 | Great Falls | Retail | A | 0.8 |
| MSSLMTXA | Missoula | Telemarketing Bureaus and Ot | A | 0.8 |
| 27 - Helo Mx Malmstrom Afb Uh-1, Mt | Malmstrom Afb | Support Activities for Air T | A | 0.7 |
| DPS Electronics | Bozeman | Telephone and telegraph tran | A | 0.7 |
| Michels Pipeline - Montana | Missoula | Gas main construction | A | 0.7 |
| US - Branch Network : 0064 | Billings | Merchant Wholesalers, Durabl | A | 0.7 |
| Shopko Store #106 (Billings, MT) | Billings | Department Stores | A | 0.7 |
| Libby | Libby | Environmental remediation se | A | 0.7 |
| Weldtech Services, Inc. | Billings | Petroleum refinery construct | A | 0.7 |
| Unit #2241 | Kalispell | Retail | A | 0.6 |
| Spligitty Fiber Optics, Inc. | Kalispel | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.6 |
| Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism Center | Billings | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | A | 0.6 |
| ExxonMobil Billings Refinery | Billings | Petrochemicals made in petro | A | 0.6 |
| Montana HVAC | Billings | - | A | 0.5 |
| Transystems LLC - Great Falls Service Center | Great Falls | Agricultural products trucki | A | 0.5 |
| 04564100-00w001 Local Bounti Corporation-Local Bounti Corporation | Hamilton | Other Food Crops Grown Under | A | 0.5 |
| MTKA01 | Kalispell | Semiconductor making machine | A | 0.5 |
| Par Montana Refinery, LLC | Billings | Crude petroleum refineries | A | 0.5 |
| Kalispell Regional Healthcare System | Kalispell | Social workers' , mental hea | A | 0.5 |
| Colstrip | Colstrip | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.5 |
| Transportation | Billings | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 0.5 |
| North 18th Group Home | Billings | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 0.5 |
| Capra Group Montana | Columbus | Iron work, structural, contr | A | 0.5 |
| Loenbro, LLC | Black Eagle | Iron work, structural, contr | A | 0.4 |
| Logan Health (formerly Kalispell Regional Healthcare-System) | Kalispell | Hospitals, general medical a | A | 0.4 |
| Panners Group Home | Billings | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 0.4 |
| 20th Street Group Home | Billings | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 0.4 |
| CEI Electrical Contractors | Colstrip | Low voltage electrical work | A | 0.4 |
| K2 Civil Inc. | Billings | Excavating, earthmoving, or | A | 0.3 |
| BrandSafway Solutions, LLC - P66 Refinery - Billings | Billings | Specialty Trade Contractors | A | 0.3 |
| Fabricators Unlimited - Billings | Billings | Countertops, wood, manufactu | A | 0.3 |
| S&K Global Solutions, LLC | Polson | Engineering services | B | 0.3 |
| Modern Machinery - Missoula | Missoula | Heavy machinery and equipmen | A | 0.3 |
| Askin Construction LLC | Billings | Curbs and street gutters, hi | A | 0.3 |
| Great Northern Group Home | Billings | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 0.3 |
| Williston | Billings | Crude Petroleum and Natural | A | 0.3 |
| Main Office | Billings | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 0.3 |
| Westchester Group Home | Billings | Group homes, intellectual an | A | 0.2 |
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.