TCR, interpreted
Far above average
5.3 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
North Dakota workplace safety
How 1,696 OSHA-reporting employers across North Dakota compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 1,450 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 1,696
- Employers
- 5.3
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 27,648
- Injuries (all)
- 18
- Fatalities (all)
North Dakota 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)
1,696 44th of 54 higher than 10 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
North Dakota's 1,450 rated 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 · rated subset
- 1,450
- rated employers
- 1,696
- all reporting employers
- 27,648
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 1,696 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 14% B · 14% C · 29% D · 17% F · 26%
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.
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A second cut tells a different story: ranked by rated-subset injury rate alone, North Dakota is #32 of 54. Ranked instead by fatalities per rated employer establishment (same 1,450-employer subset), it's #16 of 54, a 16-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 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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 5.3 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 1,450 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 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 14 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnegard, ND Warehouse | Arnegard | Oil well machinery and equip | F | 4.8 |
| Lithia Ford Lincoln of Grand Forks | Grand Forks | New car dealers | D | 4.8 |
| 372400-Dickinson Po | Dickinson | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.8 |
| Wishek Hospital Clinic Association | Wishek | General medical and surgical | B | 4.8 |
| MACS Fargo | Fargo | Hardware stores | D | 4.8 |
| 259 Wild Bison Travel Center | Alexander | Truck stops | D | 4.8 |
| Essentia Health - Wahpeton Clinic | Wahpeton | Physicians' (except mental h | D | 4.8 |
| Wallwork Truck Center Bismarck | Bismarck | Truck trailer merchant whole | F | 4.7 |
| Good Samaritan Society- Fargo | Fargo | Clinics/centers of health pr | D | 4.7 |
| Central Power Electric Cooperative, Inc | Minot | Transmission of electric pow | F | 4.7 |
| Drug Plastics and Glass Co., Inc. - Valley City, ND | Valley City | Bottles, plastics, manufactu | D | 4.7 |
| TNE - IMPACT Center | Grand Forks | Farm machinery and equipment | F | 4.7 |
| 4569 | Bottineau | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.7 |
| Tooz Construction, Inc. | Dickinson | Commercial and Institutional | D | 4.7 |
| American Crystal Sugar Company Hillsboro | Hillsboro | Raw beet sugar manufacturing | C | 4.7 |
| CHI St. Alexius Health Williston | Williston | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 4.7 |
| Fargo South Hospitality | Fargo | Hotels (except casino hotels | D | 4.7 |
| Home Care of North Dakota LLC DBA Home Care Companions | Grand Forks | Hospice care services, in ho | C | 4.7 |
| Grand Forks Herald - Production Plant | Grand Forks | Newspapers commercial printi | D | 4.6 |
| Fargo Luther Collision, LLC | Fargo | Automotive body shops | F | 4.6 |
| Fargo, ND-BioLife | Fargo | Plasmapheresis Center | D | 4.6 |
| Fargo | Fargo | Low voltage electrical work | D | 4.6 |
| FARGO_1479956 | West Fargo | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.6 |
| Summers Manufacturing Inc. | Devils Lake | Weeding machines, farm-type, | D | 4.6 |
| BMC-Grand Forks | Grand Forks | Construction machinery and e | F | 4.6 |
| Benedictine Living Center of Garrison | Garrison | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 4.6 |
| Main Office | Beach | Petroleum and petroleum prod | F | 4.6 |
| Swanston Equipment Corporation | Fargo | Construction machinery and e | F | 4.6 |
| ND,FARGO - Hesi Building - Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal | Fargo | Hazardous Waste Treatment an | D | 4.6 |
| 1581 | Fargo | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.5 |
| Dakota Fire Protection Inc. | Grand Forks | Fire sprinkler system instal | D | 4.5 |
| Hankinson Store | Hankinson | Construction and Mining, exc | F | 4.5 |
| 4186-03609 | Bismarck | All Other General Merchandis | D | 4.5 |
| Wm 1649 | Jamestown | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.5 |
| 376288-Minot Po | Minot | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.5 |
| 3124 Family Fare Qs (Dickinson, Nd) | Dickinson | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.5 |
| Oakes Community Hospital | Oakes | General medical and surgical | B | 4.5 |
| Nelson International of Bismarck | Bismarck | Light utility truck dealers, | D | 4.5 |
| 3050 Cash Wise South Fargo | Fargo | Retail Grocery | D | 4.5 |
| GFL 211 Dickinson ND Operations | Dickinson | Medical Transport | C | 4.5 |
| Caron USA - North Dakota | Williston | Trucking, specialized freigh | C | 4.5 |
| United Blood Services-Fargo | Fargo | Blood banking | C | 4.5 |
| Dakota Brands International, Inc. | Jamestown | Rolls and buns (including fr | D | 4.5 |
| TrueNorth Steel-Fargo | Fargo | Fabricated structural metal | D | 4.5 |
| Bismarck Location | Bismarck | Construction machinery and e | F | 4.5 |
| McQuade Distributing Co., Inc. | Bismarck | Beverages, alcoholic (except | F | 4.5 |
| Minot Store | Minot | Construction and Mining, exc | F | 4.5 |
| Prinsco, Inc. - Fargo | Fargo | Fittings, rigid plastics pip | D | 4.5 |
| Marian Manor HealthCare Center | Glen Ullin | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 4.4 |
| P&B Transportation INC | Bismarck | General freight trucking, lo | C | 4.4 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for North Dakota: 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 (5.3 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (1,696 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.