State profile · OSHA ITA
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 15 of 34| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P&B Transportation INC | Bismarck | General freight trucking, lo | C | 4.4 |
| Northwood Deaconess Health Center | Northwood | Hospitals, general medical a | B | 4.4 |
| Dacotah Paper Co | Fargo | Bags, paper and disposable p | F | 4.4 |
| Montana Dakota Utilities - R.M. Keskett Station | Mandan | Gas, mixed natural and manuf | F | 4.4 |
| Sea View Farm Linton | Linton | Potato farming, field and se | C | 4.4 |
| DGS Aviation Services : FAR - Fargo | Fargo | Support Activities for Air T | C | 4.4 |
| Vigen Construction- Parshall, ND | Parshall | Commercial building construc | D | 4.4 |
| Coal Creek Station | Underwood | Power generation, fossil fue | F | 4.4 |
| Cass County Electric Cooperative | Fargo | Electric power distribution | F | 4.4 |
| Devils Lake CSC | Devils Lake | Electric power generation, f | F | 4.4 |
| 3129 Dan'S Bismarck Arrowhead | Bismarck | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.4 |
| Runnings of Dickinson | Disckinson | General stores | D | 4.4 |
| G & R Controls - Fargo | Fargo | Temperature control system i | D | 4.3 |
| TMI Systems Corporation | Dickinson | Furniture, institutional, ma | D | 4.3 |
| Pan-O-Gold Baking Company-Fargo, ND | Fargo | Bakery products, fresh (i.e. | D | 4.3 |
| Dakota RM Construction Inc | Bismarck | Concrete pouring | D | 4.3 |
| Edling Electric | Bismarck | Electrical contractors | D | 4.3 |
| Maple Manor Care Center | Langdon | Skilled nursing facilities | B | 4.3 |
| BMC-Jamestown | Jamestown | Construction machinery and e | D | 4.3 |
| Kindred | Kindred | Commercial and Industrial Ma | F | 4.3 |
| Drayton Foods | Fargo | PL | D | 4.3 |
| ND,BISMARCK - Medical Center Campus - Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) | Bismarck | Offices of Physicians (excep | C | 4.3 |
| EH 45th Street Clinic | Fargo | MDs' (medical doctors, excep | C | 4.3 |
| Nddev - Devils Lake | Devils Lake | Couriers and Express Deliver | B | 4.3 |
| West Acres Clinic | Fargo | Family physicians' offices ( | C | 4.3 |
| BioUrja | New Town | Oil, petroleum, merchant who | D | 4.3 |
| Cc Motor Sales LLC | Fargo | Automobile dealers, new only | D | 4.3 |
| Wahpeton | Wahpeton | General Freight Trucking, Lo | C | 4.3 |
| Bowbells | Bowbells | Grain and Field Bean Merchan | D | 4.3 |
| Motor Coach Industries | Pembina | Assembly plants, heavy truck | D | 4.2 |
| 3701 Fargo | Fargo | Home Centers | D | 4.2 |
| Montana Dakota Utilities - Dickinson, ND | Dickinson | Gas, mixed natural and manuf | F | 4.2 |
| Dickinson Service Center | Dickinson | Distribution of electric pow | F | 4.2 |
| 3128 Dan'S West Bismarck | Bismarck | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.2 |
| Building 1300 | Grand Forks | Physicians' (except mental h | C | 4.2 |
| Herberger's #352 | Fargo | Department stores (except di | D | 4.2 |
| Minot Lumber & Hardware, Inc. | Minot | Home centers, building mater | D | 4.2 |
| FAR-ODFL | Fargo | General Freight Trucking, lo | C | 4.2 |
| Ridley, Inc | Bismarck | Animal feed mills (except do | C | 4.2 |
| Valley City Main Station | Valley City | Fuel Dealers | D | 4.2 |
| 2643-33030001-330301 | Williston | General Medical and Surgical | B | 4.2 |
| 3051 Cash Wise North Bismarck | North Bismarck | Retail Grocery | D | 4.2 |
| Drcm, LLC | Sawyer | Pretzels (except soft) manuf | C | 4.2 |
| Grotberg Electric, Inc. | Valley City | Electric contracting | D | 4.1 |
| 3012 Cash Wise Fargo | Fargo | Retail Grocery | D | 4.1 |
| ND Fargo | Fargo | Blood and Organ Banks | C | 4.1 |
| PRAIRIEWOOD_1378332 | Fargo | Mail and Parcel Delivery | C | 4.1 |
| 3126 Dan'S South Bismarck | Bismarck | Supermarkets and Other Groce | D | 4.1 |
| Drayton Factory | Drayton | Beet sugar refining | C | 4.1 |
| Bismarck, ND | Bismarck | Manufacturing | D | 4.1 |
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.