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North Dakota workplace safety
How 1,696 OSHA-reporting employers across North Dakota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 1,696
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR
- 27,648
- Injuries
- 18
- Fatalities
The state picture
North Dakota's reporting employers average 5.3 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.0 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 5.3
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 1,696
- employers reporting
- 27,648
- recordable injuries
- 18
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
26% of North Dakota's reporting establishments earn an F and 14% 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 North Dakota ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRNorth Dakota's average TCR of 5.3 is lower than 42% 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, North Dakota is #32 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per employer establishment, it's #14 of 54, a 18-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 North Dakota Workplaces Compare
North Dakota hosts 1,696 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 North Dakota cohort, workers have logged 27,648 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 18 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 North Dakota, 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 North Dakota, by injury rate
Page 11 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amity Technology, LLC | Fargo | Combines (i.e., harvester-th | D | 5.9 |
| Valley On Columbia | Grand Forks | Nursing homes | C | 5.9 |
| office | Horace | Plumbing, Heating, and Air-C | F | 5.9 |
| Day Program | Mandan | 623210 Residential Intellect | D | 5.9 |
| 4223-M2800 | Fargo | All Other General Merchandis | D | 5.8 |
| Chamley Pipe & Salvage LLC | Williston | Recyclable materials (e.g., | F | 5.8 |
| Vibra Hospital of Central Dakotas | Mandan | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 5.8 |
| 8172 | Fargo | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.8 |
| 3047 Cash Wise Stanley | Stanley | Retail Grocery | D | 5.8 |
| 373051-Fargo Asf | West Fargo | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.8 |
| Horace Shop | Horace | HVAC (heating, ventilation a | F | 5.8 |
| Grand Hotel Minot | Minot | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.8 |
| BioUrja New Town Terminal, LLC | New Town | Petroleum and petroleum prod | F | 5.8 |
| Traffic Safety Services, Inc. | Bismarck | Painting lines on highways, | F | 5.7 |
| St. Gerard's Community of Care | Hankinson | Skilled nursing facilities | C | 5.7 |
| O'Day Management Inc | Fargo | Business management consulti | F | 5.7 |
| Open Door Center | Valley City | Intellectual and development | D | 5.7 |
| Crary Industries | West Fargo | Harvesting machinery and equ | D | 5.7 |
| E W Wylie Fargo | Fargo | General Freight Trucking, Lo | D | 5.7 |
| Bismarck Radisson | Bismarck | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 5.7 |
| Villa Maria | Fargo | Nursing homes | C | 5.7 |
| Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing, Inc. Hettinger facility | Hettinger | Cable, nonferrous, insulated | D | 5.7 |
| American Gate & Security | Fargo | Artificial turf installation | F | 5.7 |
| Vibra Hospital of Fargo | Fargo | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 5.7 |
| Jamestown Regional Medical Center | Jamestown | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 5.6 |
| Vibra Hospital of Central Dakotas, LLC d/b/a Vibra Hospital of Central Dakotas | Mandan | Hospitals, specialty (except | D | 5.6 |
| Runnings of Bottineau | Bottineau | General stores | D | 5.6 |
| Wm 1545 | Grand Forks | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.6 |
| Petro Serve USA #077 | Bismarck | Gasoline stations with conve | D | 5.6 |
| 3020 Cash Wise Bismarck | Bismarck | Retail Grocery | D | 5.6 |
| 372368-Devils Lake Po | Devils Lake | Mail and Parcel Delivery | D | 5.6 |
| Bismarck AmeriPride Services, Inc. | Bismarck | - | F | 5.6 |
| 2690 Hornbacher's Gateway West | West Fargo | Retail Grocery | D | 5.5 |
| 1565 | Williston | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.5 |
| Ccfs - Bis | Bismarck | General freight trucking, lo | D | 5.5 |
| Hampton Inn & Suites Minot Airport | Minot | Hotel management services (i | D | 5.5 |
| Agassiz Drain Tile | Buxton | Farm drainage tile installat | D | 5.5 |
| 2643-33060001-330601 | Carrington | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.5 |
| CHI St. Alexius Health Dickinson medical Center | Dickinson | General medical and surgical | B | 5.5 |
| Skinner Roofing | Grand Forks | Roofing contractors | D | 5.5 |
| Firebird Artisan Mills | Harvey | Cereal grain flour manufactu | D | 5.5 |
| Master Construction Co. Inc | Fargo | Sidewalk, public, constructi | D | 5.5 |
| Custom Aire Inc. | Grand Forks | Heating, ventilation and air | D | 5.5 |
| Rugby Manufacturing | Rugby | Truck bodies assembling on p | D | 5.5 |
| Prairie View Landscaping & Nursery Inc | Baldwin | Landscape installation servi | D | 5.5 |
| ND,FARGO - North Medical Center Campus - General Medical and Surgical Hospitals | Fargo | General Medical and Surgical | B | 5.5 |
| Store 0130 | Minot | General Merchandise Stores | D | 5.4 |
| 1636 | Minot | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 5.4 |
| Wallwork Truck Center Williston | Williston | Trucks, road, merchant whole | F | 5.4 |
| Harvestland Constructors, Inc. | West Fargo | Grain elevator construction | D | 5.4 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What North Dakota's safety record means for you
North Dakota averages a TCR of 5.3 - about 2.0× 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.