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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 14 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnegard, ND Warehouse | Arnegard | Oil well machinery and equip | F | 4.8 |
| Wishek Hospital Clinic Association | Wishek | General medical and surgical | B | 4.8 |
| Lithia Ford Lincoln of Grand Forks | Grand Forks | New car dealers | D | 4.8 |
| KRC - North Central Region - Fargo | Fargo | Ready-mix concrete manufactu | D | 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 |
| Fargo South Hospitality | Fargo | Hotels (except casino hotels | 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 |
| Home Care of North Dakota LLC DBA Home Care Companions | Grand Forks | Hospice care services, in ho | C | 4.7 |
| Fargo Luther Collision, LLC | Fargo | Automotive body shops | F | 4.6 |
| Grand Forks Herald - Production Plant | Grand Forks | Newspapers commercial printi | D | 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 |
| Hankinson Store | Hankinson | Construction and Mining, exc | F | 4.5 |
| 4186-03609 | Bismarck | All Other General Merchandis | D | 4.5 |
| Dakota Fire Protection Inc. | Grand Forks | Fire sprinkler system instal | D | 4.5 |
| Wm 1649 | Jamestown | Warehouse Clubs and Supercen | D | 4.5 |
| 376288-Minot Po | Minot | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.5 |
| Oakes Community Hospital | Oakes | General medical and surgical | B | 4.5 |
| 3124 Family Fare Qs (Dickinson, Nd) | Dickinson | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.5 |
| 3050 Cash Wise South Fargo | Fargo | Retail Grocery | D | 4.5 |
| Nelson International of Bismarck | Bismarck | Light utility truck dealers, | 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 |
| Bismarck Location | Bismarck | Construction machinery and e | F | 4.5 |
| McQuade Distributing Co., Inc. | Bismarck | Beverages, alcoholic (except | F | 4.5 |
| TrueNorth Steel-Fargo | Fargo | Fabricated structural metal | D | 4.5 |
| Dakota Brands International, Inc. | Jamestown | Rolls and buns (including fr | D | 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 |
| ND,Fargo-Broadway Hospital-General Medical And Surgical Hospitals | Fargo | General medical and surgical | B | 4.4 |
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.